The Red House, 97 and 98 High Street

The Red House is an 18th-century former townhouse on High Street, later subdivided in the mid-20th century for office use. The building is constructed of brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with brick, stucco, and ashlar detailing. The front range has a tile roof and prominent brick stacks.

The building faces south onto High Street, with wings extending to the rear (north). The main, two-storey front range has a five-window south elevation, with a further bay on each side. The ground and first-floor windows are six-over-six sash windows in recessed reveals, with block sills and flat brick arched heads. The outer window bays project slightly forward. The central recessed entrance has a six-panel door set within a doorcase of Doric pilasters and a moulded arch, topped by a semi-circular fanlight with decorative detailing. A stucco plat band sits above the ground floor, with a pair of dentil pediments over the outer bay windows. A stucco string course and a plain friezed and moulded cornice run above the first floor. To the east is a single-window three-storey bay with a panelled entrance door and fanlight. To the west, a two-storey bay features a ground-floor door under a rounded arch and a first-floor sash window. The front range is topped by a gable gambrel roof, with large chimney stacks at either end, and three dormer windows above the front elevation. A brick parapet with stone coping runs along the roofline, with a panel of balusters in front of each dormer.

The rear includes the rear face of the main range, a two-storey hipped roof, a flat-roofed wing at the north-west corner, and a two-storey projecting bowed bay to the north-east corner; all with windows of various dates, including several sash windows. At the rear of the main range, a first-floor sash window is set in a shallow recess flanked by pilasters, topped by a blind fanlight, within a rounded brick arch, and surmounted by a broken pediment. Further dormer windows are set into the roof behind a brick parapet.