Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is a bank building constructed around 1902, originally known as the Liverpool Bank. It features snecked red sandstone on a limestone plinth, with red sandstone ashlar dressings and a slate roof topped by a copper dome. The building is two storeys high and designed in a Jacobean style, situated on a corner site with an irregular plan. It includes mullioned and transomed windows, shaped gables with ball finials, and a decorative band of carved foliage at the eaves level. The ground-floor windows are adorned with leaded lights in lozenge patterns. A prominent canted bay window rises above the eaves level, forming a domed octagonal turret at the corner. To the right of the turret is a doorway with a segmental pediment supported by granite columns, followed by a wider gabled bay that aligns with Cavendish Street. To the left of the turret, a narrow bay connects it to a wide projecting gabled bay. Adjacent to this is a projecting chimney breast with a doorway to its right, flanked by pilasters and narrow lights, beneath a segmental shell pediment. A gable with mullioned and transomed windows faces south-east towards County Street.