Former National Westminster Bank
155-158, North Street, Brighton, BN1 1EA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380621
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- 155-158, North Street, Brighton, BN1 1EA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380621
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- 155-158, North Street, Brighton, BN1 1EA
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:
- 155-158, North Street, Brighton, BN1 1EA
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 31080 04263
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 June 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ3104SW
577-1/40/603
BRIGHTON
NORTH STREET (North side)
Nos 155-158
(Formerly listed as Nos.155-158 (Consecutive) National Westminster Bank)
23/06/94
GV
II
Bank. 1921-3 by FCR Palmer (with Clayton & Black as executive architects). Extended 1960-2 in matching style by BC Sherren. Stone. Mansard roof of slate.
EXTERIOR: six-window range with three-window range return; single-corner range on chamfer of rectangular plan. Storeys and dormers over basement. The massing and details are reminiscent of late Louis C16 design, with the proportions and details stylized. Flat-arched entrance to banking hall on corner with architrave surmounted by entablature with projecting cornice, the latter supported by a pair of console brackets; the area above the entrance filled by bas relief carving of arms on an escutcheon, above which a Diocletian window which has a keystone carved as a female head and spandrels decorated with swags of autumnal fruits.
To either side of the corner range an elliptical escutcheon with a laurel and palm frond border. At each party wall an entrance to office areas. Each round-arched, ground-floor window has a historiated keystone, deep splayed reveals and sills. The ground-floor treated as shallow banded rustication, including the window jambs. Storey band treated as an entablature and stops short of range nearest each party wall; the window in this range is rather plain, thus concentrating the design further around the corner; the decorated entablature frieze now obscured by late C20 sign fascia. All first-floor windows are flat arched with architraves and keyed lintels; the walls between each window covered by delicate ribbon ornament on a shallow panel, a treatment which gives the impression that the first floor is recessed behind a short, squat pilastrade.
Above projecting cornice with balustraded parapet, behind which one flat-arched dormer for each window range, each dormer with eared architrave and cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The whole forms a group with other C20 commercial buildings in North Street, including Nos 153 (qv), 163 (qv) and Nos 166-169 The Norwich Union Insurance Building (qv).
(Brighton Polytechnic: A Guide to the Buildings of Brighton: Macclesfield: 1985-: 57).
Listing NGR: TQ3108004263
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480944
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
School of Architecture, , Interior Design, Brighton Polytechnic, A Guide to the Buildings of Brighton, (1987), 57
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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