Barclays Bank

SJ 3696 RICE LANE L9

13/965 No. 499 (Barclays Bank) (formerly listed as Barclays Bank 14.3.75. (Eskdale Road corner)

G.V. II

Bank. 1898. Willink and Thicknesse. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Stone base to ground floor sill course, 2nd floor sill course and top modillioned cornice with egg and dart mouldings. Round- headed windows to ground floor have archivolts and triple keys, behind applied distyle-in-antis Ionic colonnade; the lower parts of the columns are rusticated, the entablature hidden by C20 signboard. 1st floor cross windows. 2nd floor windows have eared architraves and triple keys. 1st and 2nd floors flanked by round stone tourelles, the bases dying into the walls; swag friezes below 3-light 1st floor windows, two 2nd floor windows and 3 segmental-headed top openings with chamfered reveals, dentilled cornices and cupolas. Entrance has Gibbs surround, ramped top and triple key. Short wall to right has ramped coping and ball finial. Returns have Flemish gables with stone banding and obelisk finials to sides. Left return has two round-headed windows with Gibbs surounds. Right return has deep bow window . 2 tall brick stacks. An accomplished essay in the manner of Norman Shaw's White Star Building (q.v.)

Listing NGR: SJ3624396505