No. 161, HIGH STREET

No. 161 High Street is an office building constructed by 1898, designed by B. S. Jacobs of Hull. It is built of brick with ashlar dressings and features a gabled and hipped slate roof with two gable stacks and a single ridge stack, all of which are coped. The building has an ashlar plinth with channelled rustication, ground-floor lintel and sill bands, a frieze with relief panels and swags, and dentillated eaves.

The structure is two storeys tall plus attics and has a total of 24 windows arranged in a 4x6 pattern. The windows are primarily plain sashes, with the first-floor windows featuring cornices. The front facing High Street has four windows and a coped parapet above, which includes two dormers with pilasters and shouldered pediments, each containing a 3-light wooden cross casement. Below this, there is an off-centre flat-headed doorway with steps and a segmental pediment, flanked on the left by two windows and on the right by a single window. The angled corner to the right has three windows on the lower floors.

In the attic, there is a large canted dormer with a central pediment that displays a coat of arms and features three wooden cross casements. The right return facing Chapel Lane has six windows on the lower floors, with the attic featuring two hipped dormers topped with ogee lead roofs and single-light windows.