Barclays Bank

1 5195 NZ 2814 NE 7/93

HIGH ROW No 27 (Barclay's Bank)

II* GV

2. 1864 by Sir A. Waterhouse. Grand C13 Gothic facade with Venetian touches. Three storeys and attic, 5 windows. Ashlar with steeply pitched slated roof whose dormers interrupt a pierced parapet above a double corbel table at eaves. Twin roof ridges with wrought iron cresting. Four tall ridge stacks with half-octagonal ends and enriched cornices, all of ashlar including pots. Paired 2nd floor windows have detached granite central shafts, chevron moulded flat heads and corbels below cills. Paired cusped lancets on 1st floor have granite engaged centre and jambshafts, projecting bracketed cills and drip moulds with impost string. Cast iron guards to upper windows. Ground floor large single cusped openings, elaborately chamfered and moulded, whose paired nooke-shafts have leafy capitals. Fading buttresses between. Drip moulds and impost string. Central door with fancy iron hinges, much moulding, including nail-head and 3 orders of nook-shafts.

Listing NGR: NZ2886514550