166, Parade

This house, now a shop, was built around 1835 and has been altered in later years. It includes a mid-20th century shop front. The exterior is brick with a painted stucco front facade and ashlar dressings, with a concealed roof. The house is four storeys high and has three windows on the first floor. The first floor has tall 6/6 sash windows within tooled surrounds, featuring a frieze and cornice. The second floor has a central round-arched window with glazing bars and a sill on consoles, between similar round-arched sashes within tooled surrounds. The third floor has 3/6 sashes in tooled surrounds, with a continuous sill band, a frieze, a cornice, and a low parapet with three panels of vase balusters. The ground floor projects slightly, with Doric pilasters supporting a first-floor balcony; otherwise, it has plate-glass windows. A continuous balcony with vase balusters runs in front of the first-floor windows. The interior has not been inspected. The Parade, as the street was later named in 1860, was originally Lillington Lane and later called Union Row around 1809. The lower section was laid out between 1810 and 1814 and extended towards Dormer Place around 1835. Originally built as residences, hotels, and lodging houses, by 1850 many had been converted into shops.