187, 189, 191, HIGH STREET N16

This is an early 18th-century building comprising three houses of a large, unified design, with the central house projecting and touching at the corners.

No. 187 is a three-story building with an attic and basement, featuring five windows. It is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings, which include a moulded and dentil cornice below a stone-coped parapet. A first-floor band is also present. A later slated mansard roof has dormers. The windows have gauged flat brick arches and long sash windows with glazing bars within near-flush, moulded frames. There are eight steps with curved cast iron handrails leading up to the boarded-up front door, which has an enriched architrave flanked by Corinthian pilasters. A former modillioned cornice has been removed.

No. 189 is a three-story building with a basement and five windows, built of dark red brick with brighter dressings. Later additions include stucco quoins, an entablature with a modillion cornice, and a parapet. The windows have gauged flat brick arches with triple key blocks and early 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars in near-flush moulded frames of an earlier type. A mid-19th-century projecting stucco porch features rusticated pilasters, round arched openings, and elaborate entablature surrounds to the central windows above. Rainwater heads are dated 1717.

No. 191 is a three-story building with a basement and five windows, constructed of soft red brick with brighter dressings and a partly rebuilt stone-coped parapet above a cornice band. It has gauged segmental brick arches over 19th-century sash windows and a first-floor cill band. The central doorway has been altered and boarded up, and there is a projecting one-bay addition to the left.

Nos. 187, 189, and 191, together with the forecourt walls and railings of Nos. 187 and 191, form a significant group.