Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is a bank building located on Corn Street in Bristol, dating from around 1820. It was widened around 1925 by W.H. Watkins. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with party walls and has a roof that is not visible. It features an open plan banking hall and double-depth plan offices above, designed in a late Georgian style.

The structure has three storeys and a seven-window range, with a nearly symmetrical front. The eastern windows were added in the 20th century. The ground floor has an arcade of semicircular arches, with smaller doorways set back and rusticated below a plat band. There is a first-floor sill band, a modillion cornice, and a balustrade with a central panel inscribed with the word "BANK." The doorways have 20th-century black granite moulded surrounds and raised cornices, with a blocked doorway to the left and double doors to the right. There is also a narrow semicircular arch leading to the left-hand alley. The windows have impost blocks, low cills, and 20th-century glazing, with architraves above and first-floor console cornices. The windows are horned 6/6-pane sashes, with narrower windows on the left-hand side.

At the rear, the right-hand section of the elevation is a mid-18th century roughcast two-window range with incised lintels on the lower floors, which have 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames, set to the left on the ground floor.

Inside, the banking hall features 20th-century half panelling and plaster decoration, including a festoon and a round ceiling panel with a modillion cornice, divided by square piers. The right-hand entrance hall is separated by a semicircular arch, leading to a rear stone cantilevered open-well stair. This stair has wrought-iron balusters with intersecting curved bars and a wreathed, cross-banded rail, along with panelled shutters.