Barclays Bank the Old Bank House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1976. Bank. 12 related planning applications.
Barclays Bank the Old Bank House
- WRENN ID
- south-alcove-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1976
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Barclays Bank the Old Bank House, the Strand, Calne, SN11 0EN
- OS grid reference
- ST 997 709
- Coordinates
- 51.43792, -2.00461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barclays Bank, known as The Old Bank House, is an office building dated 1901 located on The Strand in Calne. It is constructed of squared, coursed limestone with ashlar lateral stacks and features a slate hipped roof. The building showcases a Jacobean Revival Free style and has a single-depth plan with a lower southern range.
It stands two storeys tall and has a three-window range. The exterior includes a plinth, cornice, and a tall parapet. A projecting gabled wing features a right-hand entrance with a bracketed canopy and a curved dwarf wall topped with ball finials. This wing also has a round-arched ground-floor window and a six-light mullion and transom ovolo-moulded window on the first floor, along with an escutcheon in the gable dated 1901. The bay is flanked by similar two-light windows on the first floor at each end.
On the left side, there is a large prostyle Ionic porch with a round-arched entrance and steps leading up to a panelled door. The left-hand return has three ground-floor round-arched windows and a first-floor arrangement of two:four:two cross windows, along with a small pediment featuring an inscribed panel. The rear of the building includes a large stair light with stained glass.
Inside, notable features include a rear stair with an uncut string, a moulded rail, square newels with ball finials, panelled doors, and round-arched openings.
Local climate
Barclays Bank the Old Bank House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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