Barclays Bank and attached railings

The building, now Barclays Bank, is a house dating from approximately 1760, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It was likely designed by James Paine for Reverend Thomas Heron. The exterior is constructed of painted ashlar or stucco, incised to imitate ashlar, with stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The four-bay asymmetrical front elevation incorporates a slightly advanced, three-bay symmetrical section topped with a pediment, a central hallway entrance, and a full-height semi-circular recess. The ground floor includes bowed basement windows with 20th-century casements, while a dwarf wall fronts a set of railings with alternating plain and wavy bars, ramped up to the main door. A stone staircase leads to a pilastered doorcase with a simple entablature and a recessed six-panel door, above which is radial glazing. Flanking the main entrance are bowed tripartite windows with twelve- and eight-pane sashes, stone sills, and moulded cornices. A wide band runs immediately above the ground floor. A narrow bay to the right features steps leading to a pilastered doorcase with dosserets, a deep frieze with notched corners, a moulded cornice and blocking course, and a six-panel door with a radial glazed over-light. The first floor has four tall sash windows with glazing bars, the window above the main door being set within an eared architrave, while the others have floating cornices. The second floor features four six-pane sashes, with the window above the main entrance framed by an architrave with a stepped head and bracketed sill. Stone sills are present on the second floor windows. A moulded open pediment surmounts the main three-bay facade, flanked by similarly moulded cornices. A brick end stack is located to the left, and the gables have stone capping. The interior manager’s office has a high-quality cast-iron fireplace within a pine surround, with urns on the frieze and flanked by round-arched niches. It also includes six-panel doors, cornices, and three later plaster ceiling roundels. Leatham, Tew and Company’s Bank founded in 1801, was taken over by Barclays in 1907. The attribution to James Paine is supported by Derek Linstrum in West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture (1978).