148 and 149, High Street

Nos 148 and 149 on High Street in Stockton on Tees were once the winter town house of the Christopher family. A notable feature, the fine oak balustrade made by Captain Christopher from drift oak collected during his time with Captain Cook, has been removed. The building later served as the vicarage and was the last private dwelling house on High Street in the early 21st century.

Constructed in the mid-18th century, the building is three storeys tall with an attic, featuring five windows and an additional one-window bay to the right. It is built of painted brick with stone rustic quoins, lintels, cills, and moulded copings at the parapet, which conceals a central gabled dormer. The extra bay has rustic quoins on the left and stuccoed brick pilasters on the right, with a band over the first floor and a stone fascia below the coping. The windows are glazing bar sash windows with flush frames, set back in the extra bay. The building has modern shop fronts.