Princes House, Brighton
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Princes House (formerly Norwich Union House) is an office and residential building in the centre of Brighton, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. The prominently sited building, an example of Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel's "inimitable response to Modernism",[1] was purpose-built as the headquarters of the Brighton & Sussex Building Society, forerunner of the Alliance & Leicester.[2] The office was later used by Norwich Union, another financial institution, and now houses a restaurant and flats. The steel-framed structure is clad in red bricks with inlaid mosaicwork, forming a carefully detailed façade, and the corner elevation has an arrangement of brickwork and windows which suggests "the pleated folds of a curtain". The building is listed at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.[3]
Princes House | |
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Location | 166–169 North Street, Brighton, Brighton and Hove BN1 1EA, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 50.822406°N 0.139033°W / 50.822406; -0.139033 |
Built | 1935–36 |
Built for | Brighton & Sussex Equitable Permanent Building Society |
Architect | Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel |
Architectural style(s) | Early Modernist/Eclectic |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Norwich Union House |
Designated | 4 November 1994 |
Reference no. | 1380623 |