168 AND 170, PARADE (See details for further address information)

Houses, now a restaurant with offices, were built around 1835 and subsequently altered. The exterior is pinkish-brown brick with a painted stucco facade and a concealed roof, featuring a cast-iron balcony. The building is four storeys high with four first-floor windows, and an angled section with a curved plan and one first-floor window. The facade incorporates fluted Ionic pilasters on the left and right, and pairs of fluted Tuscan pilasters in the centre, topped by a frieze and cornice. Pilaster strips are present on the third floor, with incised decoration on the ends.

The first floor has 10-pane French windows with overlights in molded surrounds. Second and third floors feature 8/8 sash windows with molded surrounds and sills to the second floor. The angled section has curved windows on the plan, with a blind box to the first floor. The ground floor features horizontal rustication and rectangular bays, each with four Ionic columns and three 8/8 sashes between two 2/2 sashes, also with molded sills, frieze and cornice. A double-doored entrance in a rusticated arch with a keystone and a two-columned porch with a frieze and cornice are present at the angle of the building. Balconies above the porch and over each bay have stick and circle balustrades.

The left return is four storeys high, with four first-floor windows. Pilasters with fluted columns run to the ends of the first two floors, topped by a frieze and cornice. Incised decoration appears above the pilasters on the third floor. A cornice and blocking course with plain pilasters at the ends cap the building. The first floor has tall 12/12 sashes in tooled surrounds. The second floor has 8/8 sashes with sills, and the third floor has smaller 8/8 sashes in tooled surrounds. Horizontal rustication is present on the ground floor, along with a boarded entrance door and four 12/12 sashes with sills. All windows are in plain reveals.

The interior includes a rear openwell staircase with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail. Historically, the Parade was renamed in 1860, formerly known as Lillington Lane and then Union Row around 1809. It was laid out between 1808 and 1814, and extended towards Dormer Place around 1835. Initially built as houses, hotels, and lodging-houses, the building had become shops by 1850. The building occupies an important corner site.