20–22 Marlborough Place, Brighton
20-22 Marlborough Place is an office building in the seaside resort of Brighton, part of the city of Brighton and Hove. It was built in the 1930s for the Citizens ' Permanent Building Society. The elegant building in the style of neo- Georgian architecture premises is now used by one opened in the 1980s branch of the Allied Irish Bank ( GB). The building was designed by John Leopold Denman, a " masterpiece of its kind in the neo- Georgian architecture of the mid-century ." It contrasts admirably with its contemporary neighbor building, the King and Queen Pub. The facade of the Bank comprises a series of stone carving reliefs by Joseph Cribb, workers in the construction industry show, including also a figure that represents the architects Denman itself. English Heritage has listed the building for its architectural and historical importance in Grade II.
History
Brighton developed in the 18th and 19th centuries into a fashionable seaside resort, has become the center of which, among others, Old Steine . This was at the southern end of a large area which was poorly drained and was later identified as Valley Gardens known. The first residential development beyond the limited of four streets Altsiedlung was 1771/72, when the North Row was built on the west side of the open area. This was renamed in 1819 in Marlborough Place. An old building was incorporated into the street. It was an old farm house that was given a new front in the Georgian style and became the King and Queen Pub.
The restaurant and most of the buildings north of it to the junction with Church Street were built in the 1930s. One of the plots was selected by the Citizen's Permanent Building Society as a seat for their headquarters and a branch. 1933, the company commissioned the architect John Leopold Denman with the plans for the building. This was a local architect who had planned to multiple buildings since 1909 and practiced in the area of the 1920s. Although he was considered an expert on the neo- Georgian architecture, but was also able to make in other architectural styles; ultimately he chose for his work in Marlborough Place but for a neo- Georgian design, which forms a " strict contrast " to the eclectic and sumptuous next door restaurant that had been a year earlier, planned by Clayton & Black, another Brighton architects.
The building was completed in the same year and used by the housing company until the postwar period. In the 1980s it was taken over by the Allied Irish Bank ( GB) and is still used as the branch.
The office building has been awarded by English Heritage in the Grade II on 26 August 1999. In this category are classified building of " special interest " who hold a "national importance ". In February 2001, this building was one of 1124 in the Grade II classified buildings in Brighton and Hove.
The building is located within the Valley Gardens Conservation Area, which is one of 34 Conservation Areas in Brighton and Hove. The Brighton & Hove Council describes the building as " excellent item building " within a mixture of buildings of different ages, do not form a uniform composition, noting that it is well to older, from the basis of " understanding scale, wall thicknesses and proportions " 18th and 19th -century buildings in the neighborhood passe. The Council noted that there was a "strong probability against [ his ] demolition " would be, if it ever fell vacant because it was important in the context of the conservation area.
Architecture
Denman designed the building " in a well- kind but individual neo- Georgian style ." The walls are of red brick in running bond, but the facade with Portland stone interspersed. The roof, are accommodated in the storage space is covered with an S- shaped tiles. The facade is symmetrical and spans five bays, each with a window on the first and second floor. On the ground floor entrance doors flank in the two outer yokes three large arched windows, each of which is returned to the decisions taken in limestone and slightly protruding center section. The windows above the entrances are greater than the between and have sitting on corbels gable window. The other windows are simple Aufschiebefenster. Below the top floor there is a stone cornice, on which a masonry brick parapet sitting, standing stone jewelry boxes at both end. The mansard roof, in the three bay windows are used, gives the building " a Scandinavian touch ." An elaborately designed clock with a decorative housing protrudes on the first floor of the facade.
The building stands out due to a series of stone reliefs in the architraves of the arched windows of the ground floor. They form from the building trade business and represent three workers engaged in construction activities. In the area of the left pane displaying Denmans is seen in a hat holding a design plan and talking to another man. The other reliefs show a man who laid bricks, and another man who sawed a piece of wood. The exporting sculptor was Joseph Cribb, who for many years worked with Denman, such as the offices of the newspaper Brighton & Hove Herald in the Pavilion Buildings, which are only a small distance away. These reliefs are in good condition and are not subject to immediate danger of weathering.