The Pickwick Restaurant

The Pickwick Restaurant, located at Nos. 197, 199, and 201 Watling Street, along with No. 2 Park Street, is a row of shops and dwellings dating from the early 18th century, with some 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, painted at the front, and features 20th-century plain-tile hipped roofs, with brick ridge and end stacks. It has an L-plan layout, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has a six-window range.

The shop front for No. 197 is from the 20th century, while No. 199 has a 19th-century shop front that includes a pair of canted bay windows on either side of a 20th-century glazed door. The shop front for No. 201, which houses The Pickwick Restaurant, is from the 18th century and features a part-glazed central door flanked by bay windows. The left bay has a pair of 12-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars, and the right bay has many-paned windows. Both bay windows are topped with a dentilled wood moulded cornice that serves as a hood over the door.

On the first floor, there is a 19th-century canted bay window to the left, a 19th-century sash window in the centre, and 12-pane sash windows to the right. The building has a storey band and moulded eaves, with hipped and gabled roof dormers. The rear left wing faces Park Street and features flared headers in the brickwork, with 12-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors, all having gauged brick lintels. There is an inserted 20th-century door with a wood lintel. Additionally, there is a lower two-storey, one-window extension that includes a four-panel part-glazed door with an ornamental overlight and reeded wood surround with a cornice hood, along with a 20th-century first-floor casement window with a flat-arched head and nogged brick eaves.

Inside, No. 201 has a rebuilt staircase featuring re-used early 18th-century turned balusters.