Home insurance

Home insurance - building and contents
  • Get half-price contents 1 cover
  • Plus an average 25% online discount 2
  • Get up to £500,000 buildings cover
  • Get up to £80,000 contents cover

 

 

Protect your home and your valuable possessions with our combined buildings and contents insurance 3 and you could get more than you'd expect.

We want you to be able to choose the level of cover that suits you best. Once you've entered your details, we'll offer you three levels of cover (Less, Standard or More) with prices to match. You can take one of these off-the-shelf options or you can tweak it further to add on the extras you need for your home. We'll then offer you a new quote. You control; you choose.

Contents insurance: What you get as standard
Possessions cover should they be lost, stolen or damaged Up to £80,000
Cover for those irreplaceable items like jewellery and antiques Up to £10,000
Single item Limit of £2,500
Damage caused by removal companies Up to £5,000
Replacement locks and keys if your keys are lost or stolen  


Optional contents features 
Accidental damage cover to protect you against incidents like spilling paint on the carpet  
Personal belongings cover for loss or damage, anywhere in the world  
Pedal cycles cover  


Buildings insurance: What you get as standard  
Buildings cover Up to £500,000
Cost of alternative accommodation 4 Up to 20% of the sum insured
Legal liability cover Up to £2,000,000
Tracing and accessing leaks Up to £5,000

 

 

Optional buildings features 
Accidental damage to services, fixed glass and bathroom fittings  
Matching items to cover replacement of pairs or sets where only part damage occurs  


Additional options applicable to buildings or contents insurance
Home emergency cover 8 For £54.43 per year, £4.54 per month.
Legal expenses cover For cover £16.66 per year, £1.38 per month.
Protected no-claims discount  

 

We also offer
24/7 claims line  
Claim-settlement guarantee  

 

 

Switching home insurance promise

Also – as part of our Switching Promise – we’ll pay any fees your existing insurer charges you to switch your home insurance to Barclays 5.

 

Call us

For help or to apply by phone call 0800 068 8097 6.

 

Find out more about what's covered and what's not covered

Full policy wording 780 KB 7
Summary of cover limits 310 KB
Guide to home insurance 420 KB

 

It's your home. Why shouldn't it be your home insurance? We'll present you with three popular packages to start off with. Then, if you choose, you can add, remove or change the excess levels of the features shown below.

These are our three standard packages which you can customise.

  More Standard Less
Buildings      
Accidental Damage Full Standard No
Protected No Claims Discount Yes No No
Matching Items Yes No No
Excess £100 £100 £200
       
Contents      
Accidental Damage Full Standard No
Protected No Claims Discount Yes No No
Personal Belongings £2,000 No No
Pedal Cycles No No No
Matching Items Yes No No
Excess £100 £100 £200
       
Additional Options      
Home Emergency No No No
Legal Expenses Yes Yes No

 

Use our simple Get a quote form to build your policy with only the cover you need and the optional extras you want.

 

Home insurance key exclusions


These are some of the things that aren’t covered:

  • Excess. You will have to pay the 1st part of most claims – this is known as an excess. Your schedule details the excesses that apply to your policy.
  • Claims beyond your limits. Limits apply for certain covers – they are shown on your schedule and in your policy booklet.
  • Certain loss or damage (for example theft or malicious damage) caused by you or members of your household.
  • Damage caused by chewing, scratching, tearing or fouling by domestic animals.
  • Replacement of any undamaged items forming part of a pair, set or suite where replacements can’t be matched – however wider cover is available to replace certain undamaged items under the matching items cover options for both buildings and contents  insurance (including personal belongings). See policy for full details.

Find out more with our guide to Barclays Home Insurance 780 KB Remember it's important to know exactly what's covered and what's not.

Eligibility

As long as you are 18 or over and the following statements are true, you can complete a Barclays buildings and contents insurance quote online. 

The property to be insured:

  • Is your main residence
  • Isn't a listed building
  • Has no more than five bedrooms
  • Is in good repair with no past subsidence or underpinning, and is of standard construction (ie brick, stone or concrete and roofed with tile or slate). If this is not the case we may still be able to offer you cover by calling 0800 068 8097 7.
  • Has no special exposure to flood or storm damage
  • Isn't used for business, except for home/office work that involves no employees or visitors
  • Is not left unoccupied for more than 40 consecutive days a year

Neither you nor anyone you usually live with:

  • Have more than £80,000 of contents or £10,000 of valuables

Even if you can't confirm all of these statements we may still be able to give you a quote for buildings and contents insurance. Call us on 0800 068 8097 7.

If you're a tenant or your property is a maisonette, we can't offer you buildings insurance but we can give you a quote for Contents insurance .

 

Find out more about what's covered and what's not covered

Full policy wording 780 KB
Summary of cover limits 310 KB
Guide to home insurance 420 KB

 

Call us

For help or to apply by phone call 0800 068 8097 7.

This could suit you if:

  • You'd like the convenience of a single policy for buildings and contents insurance
  • You want half-price contents cover plus a 10% discount on buying combined cover and an average 25% online discount 2

Try our other options if:

  • Your property's re-build value is more than £500,000
  • The contents are worth more than £80,000
  • You're a landlord or tenant

Get a buildings and contents insurance quote

To get a quote we'll need:

  • Details of your property
  • Your five years' claims history
  • The rebuild cost of your property (as opposed to the market value)

 

 

Important information
 
1. Offer open to new Home Insurance customers only. Take out a standalone contents policy or a combined buildings and contents policy from Barclays when you buy Barclays Home Insurance and receive your contents cover for half price in the first year. Minimum premiums apply. Quotes must be obtained by 1 July 2012 and are valid for 90 days. Offer may be withdrawn or amended at any time. Home Emergency and Legal Expenses are excluded from the offer.
 
2. Discount between 19% to 30% depending on your personal circumstances and subject to minimum premiums.
 
3. The insurer of Barclays Home Insurance is Gresham Insurance Limited, who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered Office: 8 Surrey Street, Norwich, NR1 3NG. Registered in England. Registered No. 110410. Barclays Insurance Services Company Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered in England. Registered No. 973765. Registered Office: 1 Churchill Place, London, E14 5HP.
 
4. For claims covering both buildings and contents sections of your policy, only one excess will be payable. If excess amounts are different, the higher of the two will apply.
 
5. Switching Fee Promise terms and conditions: Worried about paying a cancellation fee if you want to switch your insurance to Barclays?
Don’t be. We promise to reimburse you for any cancellation fee that your existing insurer may charge for switching to Barclays.
 
To qualify for this you must:
 
  1. Purchase a Barclays Home Insurance policy (either single or combined cover)
  2. Cancel your previous home insurance policy and pay the insurer's cancellation fee
  3. Send a copy of your previous insurer’s cancellation confirmation together with confirmation of the cancellation fee you have paid to Barclays Customer Service Centre, PO Box 7463, Perth, PH2 0YX
This fee is the fee you are charged by your previous insurer for cancelling your insurance and does not include any broker fees or premium you are due to pay.
 
Upon receipt of cancellation confirmation and the receipt of first payment (whether annual or monthly Direct Debit), Barclays Insurance Services will dispatch a cheque for the value of the cancellation fee.
 
This offer may be withdrawn or amended at any time.
 
6. Lines are open from 8am to 10pm Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm Saturdays, 10am to 4pm Sundays and Bank Holidays. To maintain a quality service, we may monitor and record phone calls. Calls are free from UK landlines but may be charged by other providers.
 
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8. The insurer of Home Emergency is Inter Partner Assistance SA, authorised by the Commission Bancaire, Financiere et des Assurances (the Banking Finance and Insurance Commission) in Belgium and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the UK. Registered UK Office: The Quadrangle, 106–118 Station Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1PR. Registered No. FC008998.

 

Barclays Bank PLC. Registered in England. Barclays Bank PLC is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Registered No 1026167. Barclays Insurance Services Company Limited is authorised and regulated by the FSA. Registered No 973765. Registered Office for both: 1 Churchill Place, London, E14 5HP. "The Woolwich" and "Woolwich" are trademarks and trading names of Barclays Bank PLC. Barclays Business is a trading name of Barclays Bank PLC. Barclays Bank PLC subscribes to the Lending Code which is monitored and enforced by the Lending Standards Board and is licensed and regulated by the Office of Fair Trading for the provision of credit products to consumers and related services. Further details can be found at www.lendingstandardsboard.org.uk


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