118B, 120 and 122 High Street

This is a banker’s house, now converted into flats, dating to circa 1770. It was extended in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and altered in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with slate roofs and ashlar stone dressings. Red brick ridge and valley stacks are also present.

The central house is three storeys high and features five bays, with the three central bays slightly projecting and topped with a pediment. It has a plinth, a band at the first floor level, a dentil cornice, a cartouche, rococo scrolls to the pediment, and a balustraded parapet. The windows are plain sashes with cambered heads and fluted keystones, arranged in a 2:1:2 pattern. A central six-panel door is topped with a radiating fanlight and set within an Ionic stone doorcase, pedimented with a scrolled keystone and egg-and-dart surround. To the left is a late 18th-century canted bay of two storeys. Originally with a dentilled cornice at its original height, this was raised later to match the other side. It has a plain sash window to each face, fluted keystones and the central window has an acanthus leaf scroll. The first-floor windows have been heightened, with the front window now blocked. To the right is an early 19th-century canted bay of two storeys, with a single plain sash on each canted face, mirroring the left-hand bay. There are three similar windows above this.

The return elevation facing Oxford Street has a 19th-century two-panel door with a plain overlight and a pilastered doorcase with a dentilled hood supported by scrolled acanthus brackets.

The rear elevation is faced in painted ashlar, with sill bands, a dentil cornice to a plain parapet, plain sashes, and later inserted modern windows.

Internally, despite alterations, some full-height panelling and panelled doors remain.

Historically, the house served as the 18th and 19th-century residence of the Claypon family, who were associated with Garfitts and Claypon Bank of Boston.