176, HIGH STREET WEST (See details for further address information)

No. 176 High Street West is a late 18th-century building that includes a former house on Villiers Street. The building features a later shop front added in the mid-19th century. The structure on High Street West is made of Flemish bond brick, while the Villiers Street section uses garden wall bond brick, both with painted ashlar dressings. It has a Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys and stands three storeys tall with three windows on the front and two on the right return.

The ground-floor shop addition is designed in a tall Corinthian style, featuring steps leading up to a central boarded door set in a round-headed opening, flanked by pilasters and voussoirs. Display windows are framed by attached columns, and within these, there are paired round-headed lights with pilasters and moulded keyed architraves. The upper floors have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills for the first-floor sashes, which have glazing bars, and smaller casements on the second floor. The deep eaves are supported by an entablature with a second gutter cornice on paired brackets. The roof is hipped at the corner with transverse ridge chimneys.

On the right return to Villiers Street, the original building has three windows, with the first bay being blind and the others featuring sashes with glazing bars, similar to the front. No. 58 Villiers Street, on the right, has a wooden architrave around an altered door recess that is under brick blocking, with a wedge stone lintel above. This door leads to steps up to a renewed door and overlight. The windows here, all with glazing bars, are similar to those of the original building, except the first and second-floor windows are the same size. The eaves entablature and cornices continue from the original building. The rear gable wall has a single central first-floor sash, two differently sized windows above, and two in the gable peak, all with glazing bars and similar lintels and sills as those on the street fronts, but unpainted.