Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is an early 20th-century bank and dwelling house with later 20th-century alterations, built in a Free Baroque style. The building is constructed of ashlar sandstone and red brick, with ashlar dressings, ashlar chimney stacks with moulded caps, and Westmorland slate roof coverings with clay ridge and hip ridge tiles. It occupies a dominant corner site, with an 'L' shaped plan incorporating banking premises, a dwelling, and unified under a single roof. The principal banking hall faces northeast.

The bank entrance is designed as a tower situated at the eastern angle between the two street frontages. A doorway is flanked by coupled Doric columns supported by a deep plinth and a plainly moulded surround beneath a deep ashlar lintel, featuring double two-panel doors. A plain fascia and cornice supports a depressed segmental pediment. The first stage of the square tower rises behind the pediment, defined by a moulded string course and a central oculus with a hood mould, along with diminutive pinnacles to each corner featuring banded finials. A tiered upper stage has a tall, semi-circular headed opening flanked by diminutive engaged Doric columns, surmounted by an open pediment. The tower is topped by a leaded, flattened dome.

The northeast elevation consists of three bays defined by engaged Doric columns rising from a deep plinth, and a fascia and cornice extending from the east doorway. The first bay has a window with glazing bars, and the second and third bays feature full-height mullion and transom windows, four lights wide and three lights high, with leaded glazing. The central tier of lights in the third bay is blind. A five-light gabled dormer window is located above the third bay, linked to the corner tower by two bays of stone balustrading.

The southeast elevation is comprised of four bays, with the two banking hall bays mirroring the details of the corresponding bays on the northeast. Remaining bays of red brick are set back and have domestic detailing, including stacked, four-light mullion windows with heads and sills set in ashlar bands. A continuous string course is returned onto the southwest elevation. The attic floor incorporates a three-light gabled dormer and an added flat-roofed dormer. A rear yard entrance doorway is attached at the south corner, featuring ashlar jambs and a pediment. An attached brick boundary wall with an ashlar band and coping defines the street boundary of the yard.

The interior banking hall has been altered, but retains unaltered coffered ceilings with decorative plaster motifs, along with windows with contemporary leaded lights, some incorporating coloured decorative work.