Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank, located on Bridge Street, Pershore, is a late 18th-century house that was converted into a bank and offices in 1929, with subsequent alterations. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring a coped parapet and brick end stacks. It has three storeys and a cellar, and consists of a seven-window range, with the central bay projecting forward. All three storeys have horned 6/6 sash windows with moulded surrounds, painted sills, and gauged brick flat arches; the central windows include keystones. Segmental-arched openings are infilled on the ground floor, leading to the cellar. The central doorcase features fluted pilasters with rosettes on the capitals, a painted gauged brick round arch incorporating a lion mask, a large fanlight with decorative leading, two stone steps, and an iron scraper. A right-hand bay has a 20th-century decorative door under a painted gauged brick flat arch, leading to the side passage. There is a painted plinth to the building. The windows were restored in the late 20th century; an earlier photograph indicates that three second-floor windows were originally bricked in, with plate glass sashes below. The interior features an Adam-style plaster ceiling moulding on the remodelled ground floor, fluted doorcases with paterae, a dog-leg staircase with decorative Gothick plain wooden balusters, a moulded basket-arched hall archway, an eared marble and wood fireplace on the first floor, and panelled window reveals. A historical note indicates it was converted from a house to a bank in 1929 and was previously known as Laughern House.