Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is a bank and office building located on Exchange Street in Kidderminster, dating from around 1860 to 1870. It is constructed of red brick with freestone dressings and features yellow brick bands. The building has slate hipped roofs with heavy moulded cornices and a brick blocking course above, along with plain truncated brick stacks. The layout consists of a bank at the northeast corner and a subsidiary range of offices to the southwest, which faces Exchange Street.

The exterior showcases a Victorian Italianate style, with a three-storey main block to the northeast and a two-storey range to the southwest. The northeast corner block has a rounded corner with two bays facing Oxford Street and two bays facing Exchange Street and Town Hall Square. The ground floor features ashlars with end pilasters, segmental-headed windows in moulded architraves with keyblocks, and a similarly detailed doorway on the rounded corner, which is supported by polished granite columns and a large keystone. Above this doorway is a stone oriel with an iron balconette, leading to a pair of small second-floor windows. The first and second floors have superimposed pilasters over the ground floor pilasters, with small semi-circular pediments above the first-floor pilasters. The eaves cornice breaks forward above these pilasters. The first and second floors also have segmentally-headed windows with keystones, and the second floor windows are set in moulded brick architraves. The left-hand return on the south side is similarly detailed.

The two-storey, six-bay southwest range features a stone string course, superimposed pilasters, and brick modillion eaves, with similarly detailed moulded brick windows and doorways with keystones. The right-hand return on the southwest side is also detailed in the same manner.

Inside, the banking hall has a moulded plaster ceiling, although part of it is concealed by a later suspended ceiling.