Barclays Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Bank.
Barclays Bank
- WRENN ID
- first-corbel-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Barclays Bank, Market Place, Somerton
- OS grid reference
- ST 490 285
- Coordinates
- 51.05399, -2.72768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barclays Bank is a corner house, now functioning as a bank, built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from local lias stone that has been cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings. The building features a Welsh slate roof behind a low parapet and has plain gables, along with brick chimney stacks at the ends.
The structure is two storeys high and has three bays on its north elevation. It has a plain parapet with a band course and a rounded northeast corner that reaches up to the parapet level. The windows include 16-pane sash windows on the ground floor and 12-pane sash windows on the upper floor, all set in plain openings with dovetailed stone lintels. The central doorway is topped with a 20th-century segmental pedimented hood supported by brackets, all made of timber. There is a simple rendered extension at the rear. The bank is prominently located at the south end of Broad Street.
Local climate
Barclays Bank receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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