1-4 Victoria Place With Attached Wall To North West

NU 2410 20/25 31.12.69

ALNMOUTH NORTHUMBERLAND STREET (East side) Victoria Place (Nos.1-4 consecutive) with attached wall to north-west

GV II

Terrace of four cottages, and attached wall. Late C17 or early C18, refenestrated and outshut added in mid-C19. Roughly-coursed rubble with large roughly-shaped quoins; cut dressings sometimes replaced by cement. Welsh slate roof with yellow brick stacks.

1 storey + attics, 4 bays. Each pair of cottages shares a central doorway; vertical-panelled centre-opening doors in old moulded surrounds, with flat- pointed arches within square frames, and cornices above. 3-light mullioned windows; 2-light windows in gabled half-dormers above. All windows in chamfered surrounds. Coped end gables on moulded kneelers; ridge and right end stacks. Right return shows 2-light window with single-light window above. Left return shows single-light windows to each floor and blocked doorway. Attached wall to left, with doorway in chamfered surround, joins Hindmarsh Hall (q.v.).

Interiors: Some cottages have old chamfered beams exposed; small timber newel stairs in corner of ground-floor rooms. No. 1, once the Seven Stars alehouse, has the internal timber sill of its ground-floor window incised with graffiti, including sailing ships.

Listing NGR: NU2469810362