153, North Street

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