1. HIGH STREET 995 (North Side) No 157 (Essex and Suffolk Fire Office) (Formerly listed as Essex and Suffolk TL 9925 SW 4/121 24.2.50. Equitable Insurance Office) II* GV 2. Fine early C19 neo-classical facade with projecting colonnade. 1820 by David Laing. Built as a Corn Exchange. Originally 2 storeys with central pediment, a 3rd storey was added later. It is now of 3 storeys with central pediment and small open pediments at each end of the front, 9-window range of double hung sashes with glazing bars, the ground floor windows have arched heads. The colonnade has 9 pairs of cast iron Greek Doric columns across the pavement. The arcade behind was enclosed in later C19 and remodelled with plate glass in 1966. Nos 156 to 158 (consec) and Albert Hall form a group Listing NGR: TL9943725211