Number 7 The Parade was built in the 1790s as one half of a semi-detached pair with the neighbouring number 8, originally rendered over its red sandstone construction; it retains its original red sandstone front steps, a basement area and railings. According to William Henry Cooper's account of the town, it was for a time the home of the Government Chaplain, George Stickler Parsons, who lived from 1795 to 1855. The house stands among the Georgian terraces of The Parade, next to the site of the town's Co-op.