Barclay'S Bank

Barclay's Bank is a bank building constructed in 1876, designed by T.H. Fleeming, with later alterations. It is built of ashlar with red sandstone shafts and features a tile roof, showcasing a High Victorian Gothic style. The building has three storeys and a seven-bay range, with a canted corner bay on the left side.

The ground floor includes a sill course, an impost band, and a cornice decorated with stiff-leaf motifs. The first two and sixth bays project forward under gables. The straight-headed ground floor windows have fixed glazing and are adorned with foliate capitals, while the upper windows are sashes. The first floor features pointed windows in two orders with foliate capitals on the shafts, and the sixth bay has three pointed lights with a bracketed balcony. The second floor has straight-headed windows with capitals on the shafts, and the sixth bay contains a stepped triplet of pointed lights. The gable above the first two bays includes a rose window and an end stack.

The canted corner bay mirrors these details and has a pointed entrance flanked by arches on round piers with iron grilles; the inner entrance consists of two orders, and the top gable is fitted with a blind lancet. The return to Lich Gates consists of five bays, with the fourth bay featuring a blocked entrance for cashcard machines, an oriel window above, and a top gable with a rose.

The rear of the building has nine bays, with the first four bays being two storeys tall and featuring a gabled arch over the first bay of the ground floor. The next five bays rise to three storeys, with a hood over the first bay of the ground floor and gables on the fifth, seventh, and eighth bays. The right return has a two-storey projection with a panelled parapet and an octagonal turret with an embattled parapet, as well as a single-storey re-entrant block with a gabled entrance to Lichfield Street. The interior includes a late 20th-century banking hall.