Bank Chambers Th Old Bank

Bank Chambers and The Old Bank, located at 101-109 Duke Street in Barrow-in-Furness, is a group of shops, offices, and a public house with flats above, built around 1865. The building is constructed of red brick with some stucco and features slate roofs. It stands three storeys tall and consists of a 2:2:2:3 bay arrangement, with an angled corner bay on the right and a 3:2 bay return to Parade Street.

The shop fronts at Nos. 101 and 103 are later additions. The first floor has a sill band supporting 4-pane sash windows, which are framed by shouldered and eared architraves with pulvinated friezes and cornices. The second floor of No. 101 has plain sashes with a sill band, while No. 103 features projecting sills for its 4-pane sashes.

No. 105, known as Bank Chambers, has a doorway on the left flanked by two tall windows, all set between rusticated ashlar piers topped with a frieze and cornice. The upper floors follow the style of No. 103 but use plain sashes.

Nos. 107 and 109, referred to as The Old Bank with flats above, have a channel-rusticated stucco ground floor, while the upper levels are finished in plain stucco. A six-panel door on the left provides access to the flats (107A and 107B) and features an overlight with decorative glazing bars. The building has moulded sills for later casements and a corner entrance, along with a continuous frieze and cornice enriched with an egg-and-dart motif.

On the first floor, there are double and single sashes in shouldered architraves with dentilled cornices, with no window present in the corner bay. The second floor includes projecting sills for two altered 4-pane sashes and two 12-pane sashes, including one in the corner bay. The entire range is capped with an ashlar lintel band and eaves cornice, and brick ridge stacks are located on the party walls.