153, NORTH STREET
153, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380620
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 153, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 153, NORTH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380620
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 153, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 153, NORTH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 153, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31056 04274
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3104SW NORTH STREET
577-1/40/602 (North side)
No.153
GV II
Bank. Early C20. Stone. Mansarded roof of slate.
EXTERIOR/PLAN: rectangular, corner plan with a 5-window range
and a 4-window return; single-window range on the chamfered
and rebated corner. 2 storeys over basement. Italianate style.
Entrance to banking hall in the corner range; flat-arched with
entablature supported by a pair of volute brackets; swags and
escutcheons in rectangular panel above. Swags also to be found
flanking the corner range and at the party walls. There is a
second flat-arched entrance to the rear of the return.
Round-arched ground-floor windows, each with a console bracket
keystone; the wall surface between treated as banded
rustication. Running across the ground floor is an attached
colonnade of the Tuscan order, one bay for each window, the
columns double to either side of the corner entrance and at
the party walls. Storey band in the form of a broad
entablature with plinth above is partly obscured by late C20
sign fascia. Each first-floor window is flat arched with
architrave and pediment, except for that on the corner which
has a double architrave only. In addition the corner range is
covered with shallow banded rustication. Quoin strips to party
walls. Entablature with projecting mutule cornice topped by
balustraded parapet is continuous. Stacks to party walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
This bank forms a group with other early C20 commercial
structures on North Street, namely Nos 155 (qv), 163 (qv) and
Nos 166-169 The Norwich Union Insurance House (qv).
Listing NGR: TQ3105604274
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480943
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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