Barclays Bank

LAUNCESTON

SX3284 BROAD STREET 660-1/4/7 (North West side) No.6 Barclays Bank

GV II

Bank. c1870. Polychrome dressed stone brought to course, granite ashlar plinth; granite quoins, jambs, sill strings and alternate voussoirs, steep hipped dry Delabole slate roof with modillioned eaves; brick end stacks with granite entablature. Irregular corner site plan with splayed corner. Gothic style. 3 storeys; 3-window range to Broad Street and 4-window range on 2 planes to right-hand return. Pointed-arched doorways; 4-centred arches to ground-floor windows framing recessed shouldered arches with quatrefoils to tympana and to aprons. 1st floor has equilateral pointed arches springing from freestone string and framing recessed shouldered arches with patterned and coloured typanae. 2nd floor has paired lancets except for single light at far right of return. Transomed 3-light windows to lower floors, 2-pane horned sashes to 2nd floor. Doorways, to centre of 3-window front on right of right-hand return, have nook shafts and quatrefoils to traceried overlights; panelled door to main doorway, C20 door to main doorway, other doorway on right, partly blocked C20 and now glazed. INTERIOR not inspected. One of a good commercial group in polychrome stone including Nos 2 and 4 (qv).

Listing NGR: SX3318384586