Barclays Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Bank.
Barclays Bank
- WRENN ID
- rusted-flue-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Barclays Bank, Castle
- OS grid reference
- SS 657 929
- Coordinates
- 51.61927, -3.94059
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Barclays Bank is a building from the 1920s featuring a three-storey classical façade. The ground floor is made of polished dark granite, while the upper floors are constructed from Portland stone. The building has five bays with advanced ends and solid parapets that include swagged tablets on the outer bays and balustrading in the centre. A deep dentil cornice and a plain frieze are supported by banded pilasters, with an enriched Ionic portico in antis at the centre. The upper windows are architraved and keyblocked, linked vertically by panelled aprons adorned with husk decoration, and feature pediments on the outer first-floor windows; the upper sashes have glazing bars. The high rusticated ground floor has a wide frieze with arched openings, including a large keyblocked entry on the left, which is complemented by ironwork gates and a lettered tympanum. The interior includes a modernised panelled banking hall.
Local climate
Barclays Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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