The Town Hall (Barclays Bank)

The Town Hall, now used as Barclays Bank, is a town hall built in 1871. It is constructed from roughly coursed granite rubble with a dressed granite plinth, rusticated quoins, jambstones, and various architectural features. The roof is primarily covered in dry Delabole slate, except for the roofs over the entrance front, which are lead. The building has a rectangular plan oriented towards the street, featuring a square clock tower at the street end, flanked by round turrets at the angles between the clock tower and the main block.

The entrance, which may have been a former lock-up, is located at the bottom of the tower, while the main entrance to the former first-floor council chamber is accessed via segmental-on-plan steps leading to a doorway in the right-hand turret. The design is in a chateau style and the exterior is two storeys high. The nearly symmetrical entrance front has three bays, with the tall square clock tower in the middle and lower round turrets on either side.

Architectural details include a plinth, a string course under the first-floor sills, and moulded eaves cornices. The clock tower features a doorway with an original heavy door, an outer wrought iron gate, and a hipped hood on brackets above. Above the door is a blind traceried niche with a hoodmould that continues as a string, with two trefoils under the eaves. The steep sprocketted lead roof has a clock face on each side and an iron balustrade with fleur-de-lys detail surrounding the square flat roof, topped with a weather vane. The turrets are similar in design, with the right-hand turret having a doorway with steps, cruciform bowed windows, and conical sprocketted lead roofs with finials. The right side wall is blind except for ground and first-floor windows towards the front, while the left side wall, which was originally a five-window front, now has a doorway to the first floor on the left. There is also a wide ground floor doorway with an original overlight in the fourth bay from the left.