Barclays Bank

BARCLAYS BANK, 27, HIGH ROW

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Explore this list entry

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1322928
Date first listed:
06-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
Barclays Bank
Statutory Address:
BARCLAYS BANK, 27, HIGH ROW
User submitted image
Contributed by Alan Marsh This photo may not represent the current condition of the site. Over 400,000 images and stories have been added to the Missing Pieces Project so far. Share your story.
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. 

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

Icon Buildings
Icon Scheduled monuments
Icon Parks and gardens
Icon Battlefields
Icon Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.
Date:
1999-08-08
Reference:
IOE01/00685/29
Rights:
© Mr Alan Bradley. Source: Historic England Archive

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1322928
Date first listed:
06-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
Barclays Bank
Statutory Address 1:
BARCLAYS BANK, 27, HIGH ROW

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BARCLAYS BANK, 27, HIGH ROW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ2886514550

Details

1
5195
NZ 2814 NE
7/93

HIGH ROW
No 27
(Barclay's Bank)

II*
GV

2.
1864 by Sir A. Waterhouse. Grand C13 Gothic facade with Venetian touches. Three
storeys and attic, 5 windows. Ashlar with steeply pitched slated roof whose dormers
interrupt a pierced parapet above a double corbel table at eaves. Twin roof ridges
with wrought iron cresting. Four tall ridge stacks with half-octagonal ends and
enriched cornices, all of ashlar including pots. Paired 2nd floor windows have
detached granite central shafts, chevron moulded flat heads and corbels below cills.
Paired cusped lancets on 1st floor have granite engaged centre and jambshafts,
projecting bracketed cills and drip moulds with impost string. Cast iron guards
to upper windows. Ground floor large single cusped openings, elaborately chamfered
and moulded, whose paired nooke-shafts have leafy capitals. Fading buttresses
between. Drip moulds and impost string. Central door with fancy iron hinges,
much moulding, including nail-head and 3 orders of nook-shafts.

Listing NGR: NZ2886514550

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
110645
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Barclays Bank

Map

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 25-Jun-2026 at 08:56:23.

Download a full scale map (PDF)
© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. Use of this mapping is subject to Terms and Conditions.

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.

Previous Overview
Next Comments and Photos