Former Barclays Bank

The former Barclays Bank, originally known as the Union Bank, is a purpose-built bank constructed in 1856. It is located on King Street in Knutsford and features a brick structure with stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys and a five-window range, with a shallow hipped roofed wing that projects to the left.

The main entrance is situated in this left wing, featuring a heavy stone porch with a round-arched entrance supported by squat marble columns and topped with a deep entablature. To the right, there is heavy arcading over paired windows, with deep round arches carried on marble shafts. The windows are recessed and have plate tracery. There is a secondary doorway to the left of the right-hand block, which has a stilted arched entablature. Next to it is a tripartite sash window, also with a stilted entablature.

A continuous string course runs beneath the first-floor windows, all of which are sash windows set in stilted arches. The left-hand wing features a continuous hoodmould, while the right-hand windows are accentuated with entablature hoods. The building is topped with a heavy moulded stone eaves cornice and has an axial stack. The interior has not been inspected.