Barclays Bank Barclay'S Bank And Attached Walls

Barclay's Bank, located in Barnard Castle, was built in 1878 by G.G. Hoskins for Jonathan Backhouse & Co. of Darlington. This bank is designed in the Jacobean style and features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, topped with a roof of graduated slate. It stands two storeys high and has a window arrangement of four windows, one window, and another one. The entrance doors are located in the first and fifth bays, with a step up to the left door. Above the left door, there is a Lombard frieze to the sill string of the window. The entrance in the gabled fifth bay has steps leading up to it, with diagonally boarded panels on both doors and stone transoms above the overlights, all framed in deep chamfered surrounds with flower stops on the dripmoulds.

The window above the right door features mullions and transoms, with a raised dripmould over a carved panel displaying the JB monogram. There is a vent slit in the gable peak, with foot and mid-pitch steps, and a stone leaf finial. The four left bays have transomed windows that are taller and include a dripcourse on the ground floor, while on the first floor, they sit on a sill-string and rise slightly through the eaves under gablets adorned with roundels and stone leaf finials. The steeply pitched roof is finished with stepped stone gable copings and tall ridge chimneys that have ashlar plinths and moulded tops. The right return to Newgate is designed in a similar style. The walls in front of the bank have chamfered coping, although the railings have been removed. On the right return, the piers leading to the yard entrance feature stepped ashlar coping. The interior has not been inspected.