Former Barclays Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1992. Bank. 2 related planning applications.
Former Barclays Bank
- WRENN ID
- old-sill-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1992
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Former Barclays Bank, 127, King Street, Knutsford, WA16 6EF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 751 789
- Coordinates
- 53.30647, -2.37384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Former Barclays Bank sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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