Barclays

No. 10 Barclays, located on Norfolk Street in Manchester, is a former Palatine Bank that has been converted into a cafe bar. Built in 1909 by the architectural firm Briggs, Wolstenholme and Thornley, the building features a Portland stone exterior and a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan with circular towers at both the east and west corners, designed in the Norman style.

The structure stands four storeys tall, with a basement and attic, and is symmetrical with five bays plus the circular corners. The ground floor is treated as a plinth with a bracketed cornice, leading to a giant round-headed arcade on the next three floors. This arcade is adorned with semi-columns that have scallop caps, and the arches are enriched with dog-tooth and nail-head detailing. The circular corner towers feature a massive three-bay open arcade at the ground floor, machicolated friezes, and conical roofs.

The main facade includes a central round-headed doorway and round-headed windows at the ground floor, all in the Norman style. The first and second floors have coupled windows with Norman shafts, and Diocletian windows are present in the heads of the arches. The corner towers have round-headed Norman-style windows on the first and second floors, with small paired windows on the third floor. Tall chimneys with machicolated caps complete the design. The left return side, which faces Brown Street, has a simpler four-bay design with a colonnade instead of an arcade. The interior has not been inspected.