Barclays Bank The Old Bank House

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.