Barclays Bank

Barclays Bank is a large late Victorian business building featuring classic architectural details. It is constructed of red brick with black and white-painted rendered and stone dressings, a rendered ground floor, and a shallow-pitched slate roof with overhanging boarded eaves. The building stands three storeys tall and consists of five bays, designed to fit its corner location with the entrance positioned across the angle in the third bay. The design is asymmetrical and includes a variety of features such as paired and plain pilasters, quoins, and windows that are either single, paired, or triple. Some windows are round-headed, while others are square-headed, and many have keystones, brackets, stone surrounds, imposts, and hoodmoulds, with some being plain. The upper floors have two-pane sash windows, while the ground floor features larger modern replacement windows. Each elevation has a shallow pediment over its main bay: the Castle Parade elevation showcases a triple window on the top two floors, with a Venetian-style window on the first floor, while the Maryport Street elevation has two widely spaced windows. To the left of each main bay, there is a section without a pediment: paired windows on Maryport Street and triple windows on Castle Parade. The curved corner features single narrow windows, with the middle bay containing a round-arched entrance.