Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is a bank building constructed in 1887 by A. Waterhouse, with an extension added in 1924. It is made of sandstone ashlar and features roofs of banded purple and green slates over the left three bays, and graduated Lakeland slate over the right three bays, all with stone gable copings. The building is designed in a Free Gothic style and consists of four storeys in the left three bays and three storeys in the right three bays.

The second and fifth bays have panelled doors with overlights, the left one framed in a Tudor-flower surround, beneath low-relief panels that read "BARCLAYS BANK" and "BARCLAYS CHAMBERS" on a scroll, along with dripmoulds. The ground-floor windows are stone-mullioned and transomed, featuring varying numbers of lights from one to four. The first and second-floor windows display Perpendicular tracery. A two-storey oriel window in the second bay has a battlemented parapet.

The top storey of the left three bays contains plain paired cusped lights. There are drip strings and floor strings, with bracketed shafts above the first-floor string from the fifth bay. Each central bay of the three has a crow-stepped gable, with the left gable featuring a large griffin holding a wind-vane flag. Low-relief panels in the gables display a monogram on the left and the date 1924 on the right. The building is topped with a low battlemented parapet.