Barclays Bank

ULVERSTON

SD2878 COUNTY SQUARE 626-1/3/12 (South side) Barclays Bank

GV II

Bank. Built c1902 as the Liverpool Bank. Snecked red sandstone on a limestone plinth with red sandstone ashlar dressings, slate roof, and a copper dome. 2 storeys. Built in a Jacobean style, with an irregular plan on a corner site, with mullioned and transomed windows and with shaped gables with ball finials. At eaves level there is a band of carved foliage decoration. The ground-floor windows have leaded lights in lozenge patterns. At the corner there is a canted bay window which rises above eaves level as a domed octagonal turret. To its right is a doorway with a segmental pediment carried on granite columns, and farther right a wider gabled bay aligned with Cavendish Street. To the left of the turret a narrow bay links it with a wide projecting gabled bay. To its left there is a projecting chimney breast with a doorway to its right flanked by pilasters and narrow lights, under a segmental shell pediment. A gable with mullioned and transomed windows faces south-east towards County Street.

Listing NGR: SD2865178187