Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is a bank building located in Barrow-in-Furness, constructed around 1875. It features a façade made of ashlar sandstone set on a limestone plinth, topped with a slate roof. The building has three storeys and an attic, divided into six half-bays, and is designed in the Italianate style.

The entrance, located in the first bay, is framed by part-fluted pilasters with composite capitals. Above the entrance is a stone transom with an overlight, a lintel adorned with a carved keystone, and carved brackets supporting a cornice that leads to a balustraded balcony with panelled corner dies. The matching pilasters extend from a moulded sill band to round-arched windows, which are detailed with archivolts and keystones. To the right, there is a half-bay with an altered side doorway set beneath a round-arched niche. A later fascia sign is positioned beneath the ground-floor cornice.

On the first floor, the windows have projecting sills and are plain sashes set within scroll-shouldered architraves, topped with panelled friezes and cornices. The second floor features a string course and fluting beneath the sill band, with plain pilasters that have decorated capitals and plain sashes in architraves. The building is capped with an entablature and a corniced parapet, which has dies over each bay division. The mansard roof includes a corniced end stack on the left and a matching stack to the right of the fourth bay.