Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is a three-house building, now offices, dating from approximately 1820 to 1850, with later alterations including an early 20th-century shop front and refurbishment in the 1980s. The building is stucco over brick, with a concealed roof. It is four storeys high, featuring 3+4 first-floor windows. The exterior is characterised by stucco detailing on brick, including ashlar to the ground-floor shop front, with a brick stack at the left end. Details include quoins extending through the first and second floors, tooled architraves to the first-floor windows, alternating triangular pediments and cornices on console brackets, a continuous sill band to the second-floor windows with alternating feet and tooled architraves, and a crowning frieze and cornice. The windows are 1/1 sashes to the first floor, 6/6 sashes to the second floor, and 3/3 sashes to the third floor, all set in plain reveals. The ground-floor shop front features paired Ionic pilasters framing the entrance and a wide plate-glass window, with three narrow windows featuring single Ionic pilasters, and a further entrance to the right angle surmounted by a frieze and cornice. 20th-century entrances are present. The right return, incorporating No. 4 Rodney Road, continues the shop front for two blind bays, followed by a two-storey link range with three first-floor windows, and then a three-storey range with three first-floor windows. The right return includes horizontal rustication to the ground floor, a cornice, quoins through the first and second floors, and tooled architraves to the first-floor windows. The windows are 6/6 sashes to the first and second floors, and 3/3 sashes to the ground floor, all in plain reveals and with sills. The central entrance has two Ionic columns in antis, an architrave and frieze, double six-panel doors with an overlight. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included on the list for its group value on the High Street and its contribution to the setting of Rodney Road.