Former London & County Bank

8-11, Pavilion Buildings, BN1 1DP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380708
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: Former London & County Bank
Statutory Address:: 8-11, Pavilion Buildings, BN1 1DP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380708
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: Former London & County Bank
Statutory Address 1:: 8-11, Pavilion Buildings, BN1 1DP

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 8-11, Pavilion Buildings, BN1 1DP

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 31228 04132

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 August 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ3104SW 577-1/40/662

BRIGHTON PAVILION BUILDINGS (East side) Nos.8-11 (Consecutive)

(Formerly listed as National Westminster Bank)

23/06/94

GV II

Bank. 1905 by Godfrey Pinkerton for the London & County Bank. Buff sandstone with dressings of red sandstone, roof obscured by parapet.

EXTERIOR: four storeys; five windows to the west front, two to the south, and one in the entrance bay to the corner, which is set back in a shallow curve. The details are derived partly from the Italian Renaissance and partly from the Greek Revival. Ground floor decorated with broad, slightly projecting bands of fluted red sandstone, with pilasters between openings. Flat-arched entrance with elaborately carved architrave, cornice and scrolled pediment set between antae whose faces are carved with scrolling foliage, and entablature with putti holding shields; panelled double doors of original design. Flat-arched office entrance to north under a coved round arch with panelled architrave, entablature, panelled archivolt, foliate keystone and fanlight as tympanum; panelled door, the upper panel having an iron grille of Italian Renaissance design.

All windows flat-arched, those to the ground floor with panelled architraves and bracketed pediments in the Greek taste; the windows have tripartite glazing with one transom, the lower part having slim metal columns standing in front of each of the mullions, and each crowned by an exaggeratedly coved cornice with antefixae; these have been shortened at the base on the two northernmost windows; entablature to ground floor, the cornice of which supports balconies to the first-floor windows. The first and second floors over the entrance have one window each, forming a single composition the first-floor window is tripartite, the outer lights with architraves, and the whole flanked by panels of scrolling foliage, the central light under an open pediment filled with festoons, and so broadly Palladian; over the pediment, a flat-arched window with egg-and-dart moulding to architrave, and consoles, flanked by emblematic figures carved in low relief, Navigation, apparently, to the left, and perhaps Industry to the right.

The first-floor windows on the south front are flanked by panels of scrolling foliage with segmental pediments over; on the west front there are three windows of this design, alternating with two having architrave and cornice only; second-floor windows on both of these fronts flat-arched with architraves; elaborate entablature with triglyph frieze having paterae and emblems between, and mutule cornice. In the attic storey the entrance bay is set back further behind a screen of paired antae; other windows flanked by Doric pilasters but with unmoulded lintels and sashes of original design; the spaces between them panelled. Balustrade over entrance bay flanked by panelled and corniced stacks, parapet to the rest, panelled and corniced stacks.

INTERIOR: the banking hall has a floor of black and white marble, columns and pilasters of neo-Classical design, and panelled ceiling with egg- and-dart mouldings; flat-arched entrance at north end in shallow curved recess with pilasters, archivolt and decoration to the tympanum in the Adam style; lobby to corner entrance, dado and counter panelled in oak and ebony, the counter also distinctively enriched with inlays.

(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3122804132

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Sources

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Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.