Former Barradale Offices

The Former Barradale Offices is an architect's office built between 1878 and 1880, designed by Isaac Barradale. It features thin red Surrey bricks laid in English bond, rough-cast render, and Ketton stone dressings, topped with a clay tile roof.

This building has a rectangular plan and is situated in a terrace facing east onto Greyfriars. It showcases the Domestic Revival style with three storeys and an attic, each treated differently. The upper windows are designed as bays to provide side light for desks. The ground floor features a central chamfered ashlar doorway with a rectangular overlight displaying the city's coat of arms and the motto "SEMPER EADEM," meaning "always the same." Flanking the entrance are four-light ashlar mullion and transom windows with shallow fillets and glazing bars in the top lights.

The first floor is highlighted by a continuous canted oriel window with ten lights formed by mullions and transoms, all beneath a tiled pent roof. This oriel is supported by ornate carved wooden brackets adorned with oak leaves, acorns, and a lion’s face. The second floor includes two canted oriel windows with three lights each, also supported by brackets. The jettied attic features two rough-cast gables, supported by curved wooden brackets with plain bargeboards and drop finials. Each gable is illuminated by a four-light casement window and has a moulded wooden lintel.

Inside, the interior has been remodelled and retains very few historic fixtures, fittings, or joinery, except for the dogleg staircase that rises through all floors. This staircase has stone steps and a moulded handrail that ends in a large scroll, supporting an iron balustrade with stick balusters and decorative panels. The lower flights feature panels with diamond-patterned uprights and a roundel at the top, while the upper flights have wavy uprights with scrolls and an urn above.