Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is a bank built in 1913 by Garside and Pennington. The main section is constructed of ashlar stone, while the section facing Brewery Street is red brick with ashlar dressings. The building has a slate roof and is in an Edwardian Classical style.

The building occupies a corner site, with the main entrance on the corner. It has three bays facing Victoria Street West and a single bay facing Brewery Street, with a recessed four-bay section to the right. The ground floor features a moulded marble plinth and channelled rustication. The tall recessed entrance has 20th-century glazed doors within its original surrounds, featuring an architrave, carved dosserets with hanging foliate drops, a pulvinated frieze, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course that connects with the first-floor sill string course. To the left of the entrance are three round-arched windows with margin glazing bars in deep hollow-chamfered reveals, featuring bold keystones. The upper floors have vertical panels in each bay, containing a first-floor plate-glass casement with a projecting lintel and corniced hood, a raised panel at the second-floor level, and a two-light second-floor mullioned window with glazing bars. The entablature features a modillioned cornice, leading to a tall panelled blocking course forming a parapet, with a raised section above the corner bay bearing a carved wreath.

The Brewery Street front has a single similar bay flanking the entrance to the left, and a recessed four-bay section with similar details but constructed in red brick with ashlar windows and dressings. The ground-floor section lacks rustication, and the windows are set in plain-chamfered arched reveals, linked by flush ashlar bands. This section has a similar cornice to the main front but lacks a parapet.

The interior banking hall features a panelled ceiling with foliate modillioned cornices, a panelled dado, and pilastered wall arcading. There is wood panelling with a carved overdoor and an elaborate 18th-century style chimneypiece, complete with a pedimented overmantel and carved tympanum.