Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW NORTH STREET
577-1/40/604 (North side)
No.163

GV II

Commercial offices. Designed for the Royal Insurance Company
by Clayton and Black in 1904. Pink granite. Roof of green
slate. The plan follows the corner, resulting in a 3-part
composition.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and dormered attic over basement; 4-storey
tower bays at party walls and 5-storey tower at corner.
9-window range. Edwardian Baroque style. Flat-arched entrance
at corner framed by Tuscan columns set under a deep bracketed
porch formed from a semicircular pediment composed of raking
cornice only. In the first- and ninth-window ranges are
subsidiary flat-arched entrances with shallow lintel porch
above topped by a semicircular light. The elevations of the
intermediate ranges are identical; segmental-arched basement
windows set in a heavily rusticated base; the ground-floor
windows are round arched with keyed architraves and arches;
the jambs of the side entrances are keyed also. Cornice across
the ground floor serves as a base for the first and second
floors which are treated, in the intermediary bays, as distyle
in antis, the wall behind them treated as a rustication which
rises, in the end bays, to form the surface of a third-floor
towers. In the corner range the rustication forms piers which
support a segmental pediment with arms bearing the legend: The
Royal Insurance Company. Above the cornice line the tower sets
back one stage, with corner piers, before the final octagonal
stage which is capped by a dome. Dormers between the towers
are flat arched with segmental pediments and a scalloped
parapet between each. All upper-floor windows have architraves
and are flat arched, those on the first floor are
floor-to-ceiling and set in aedicules topped by segmental
pediments with keyed lintels and jambs. Upper-floor windows in
the end bays and the centre tower have cornices or pediments.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3113304213

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 163 North Street, Brighton at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4551416

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