Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is a bank building dating from around 1900, located on Oldham High Street. It features an ashlar facade and a Welsh slate roof. The building stands three storeys high and occupies a corner site, with a four-bay main elevation facing High Street, a four-window return elevation, and a stepped seven-bay rear elevation towards Church Lane. The entrance is located in a canted angle, highlighted by a tower and dome above.

The doorway has a round-arched architrave, with paired round-arched windows above that are recessed in a moulded architrave, topped with a heavy cornice. The third storey features a round-arched window with a heavy moulded architrave, a sill band, and a string course. The tower has an arcaded string course above triple round-arched windows, finished with a fretted parapet and a leaded dome.

The main elevation on High Street is divided into four asymmetrical bays. The first bay has paired recessed windows with flanking sidelights on the ground and first floors, accented by a stressed architrave and string course. The second bay has paired recessed windows with a single lower window alongside. The right-hand bays contain triple windows that are recessed in an architrave, accompanied by a deep moulded string course and a single inserted window on the ground floor of the right-hand bay. The upper storey features continuous arcaded fenestration, and there are attic dormers in the roof, including a segmentally pedimented attic dormer on the return elevation, which has paired recessed windows with sidelights.

The rear elevation consists of three three-storey bays with segmentally-pedimented gabled dormers, along with a lower four-bay range that has shallow upper floor windows.