Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is a bank building dating from around 1870, located on Broad Street in Launceston. It features polychrome dressed stone brought to course with a granite ashlar plinth, granite quoins, jambs, sill strings, and alternate voussoirs. The building has a steep hipped dry Delabole slate roof with modillioned eaves and brick end stacks topped with a granite entablature. The design is in the Gothic style and has an irregular corner site plan with a splayed corner.

The building stands three storeys high, with a three-window range facing Broad Street and a four-window range on two planes to the right-hand return. The pointed-arched doorways and ground-floor windows have 4-centred arches framing recessed shouldered arches, which feature quatrefoils in the tympana and aprons. The first floor has equilateral pointed arches that spring from a freestone string, framing recessed shouldered arches with patterned and coloured tympana. The second floor displays paired lancets, except for a single light at the far right of the return. The lower floors have transomed three-light windows, while the second floor features two-pane horned sashes.

The main doorway, located at the centre of the three-window front on the right-hand return, has nook shafts and quatrefoils in the traceried overlights. The main door is panelled, while another doorway on the right is partly blocked and now glazed. The interior has not been inspected. This building is part of a notable commercial group in polychrome stone, which includes Nos 2 and 4 nearby.