168, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)

No 168 High Street is a Grade II* listed building that now functions as a shop. The facade dates from the early 19th century, while the main structure was rebuilt in the mid-18th century, with a rear section that was refaced around 1700. The building features a Flemish bond gault brick facade and a Kent-tile roof. It is three stories high with a three-bay facade. The ground floor has a tripartite shop front in a late 20th-century Edwardian style, along with a classical door surround to the left. There are three 12-pane sash windows on both the first and second floors, set in reveals with glazing bars and topped by flat rubbed brick arches. The first floor also has three semi-circular rubbed brick arches with an impost band, and there is a coped parapet with a cornice band. A stack is located on the west side.

The rear elevation, dating from around 1700, has a three-story wing made of Flemish bond red brick, featuring a parapet, sashes with glazing bars, and two casement cross windows from around 1900. There are additional 18th-century gabled and lower wings. A 20th-century addition extends the first floor beyond an earlier ground floor.

Inside, the front building includes a first-floor panelled room from the early 18th century, featuring two field panels, a box cornice, shuttered window embrasures, a lugged marble fireplace, an early 19th-century grate, and a plaster bar relief depicting Aeneas bearing Anchises from burning Troy. The second-floor room in the front building has an early 19th-century grate and possibly an early 17th-century mantel with three panels and lozenges. Behind the front building is an early 17th-century dogleg staircase with a carved string, three urn and stem balusters per tread, a swept handrail, and panelling up to dado level, with Tuscan column newels. The stairs feature box cornices on the ground and first-floor landings. The first-floor rear chamber has early to mid-17th-century style muntin panelling, a dentil cornice, and an overmantel with pilasters. The second-floor rear chamber is similar but lacks an overmantel. The second rear chamber on the first floor has an early 18th-century service stair with urn and stem balusters and square newels. The position of canted tie beams with four-centred chamfered mouldings suggests that an earlier hall was incorporated into this building.