Barclays Bank is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Bank. 10 related planning applications.
Barclays Bank
- WRENN ID
- slow-rafter-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Barclays Bank, 6, Market Place, City of Durham, DH1 3HL
- OS grid reference
- NZ 274 425
- Coordinates
- 54.77696, -1.57518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Barclays Bank receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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