Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is a bank with chambers above, built around 1900 and altered around 1980. It is likely designed by the architectural firm Austin and Paley. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs, showcasing an Elizabethan Revival style. It features a rectangular plan situated on the corner of Market Street and New Street, comprising three storeys plus an attic.

The design includes three wide bays on both Market Street and New Street, with a canted bay at the corner that houses the entrance to the banking hall. This entrance features a round-headed doorway flanked by shallow Ionic pilasters. Above the doorway, there are three-light mullioned and transomed windows on each floor. The second floor has octagonal turret-like projections at the corners, which rise alongside a gabled dormer that has a small circular window and a square finial.

On the Market Street facade, there are cornices between the storeys, sill bands on the first and second floors, and semi-octagonal projections between the bays on the first and second floors that rise as turrets to flank the two gables on the left. The New Street facade is similar, but the first bay projects slightly on the ground and first floors, and the second-floor projections are replaced by two corbelled flat chimneys that flank a single central gabled dormer. To the right of the second bay on the ground floor, there is a simple round-headed doorway that is now blocked.

Most windows have mullions and transoms, primarily with two lights, except for the enlarged shop windows with segmental heads in the first two bays on the ground floor of Market Street and the third bay on New Street, which were modified around 1980. The original ground-floor windows and those in the attic feature scrolled aprons. Historically, the building was constructed as a branch of the Bank of Liverpool.