Barclays

MANCHESTER,

SJ8498SW, NORFOLK STREET, 698-1/28/259, (South side), No. 10, Barclays

(Formerly Listed as: NORFOLK STREET (South side) No. 10 Barclays Bank)

03/10/74

GV

II

Includes: No. 22 Barclays BROWN STREET. Former Palatine Bank, now cafe bar. 1909, by Briggs, Wolstenholme and Thornley; altered. Portland stone, slate roof. Rectangular plan incorporating circular towers at the east and west corners. Norman style. Four storeys with basement and attic, five bays plus circular corners, symmetrical; ground floor treated as plinth with bracketed cornice, giant round-headed arcade to the next three floors, in Norman style with with semi-columns which have scallop caps and much dog-tooth and nail-head enrichment to the arches; circular corner towers with massive 3-bay open arcading to ground floor, machicolated friezes, and conical roofs. Main facade has central round-headed doorway and round-headed windows at ground floor, all in Norman style, coupled windows to 1st and 2nd floors with Norman shafts, and Diocletian windows in the heads of the arches. Corner towers have round-headed Norman-style windows to 1st and 2nd floors, small paired windows to 3rd floor. Tall chimneys with machicolated caps. Four-bay left return side (to Brown Street) slightly simpler, with colonnade instead of arcade. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8402098373