The Victoria public house including attached walls, gate piers, setted yards and outbuilding

The Victoria public house, including attached walls, gate piers, setted yards and outbuilding

A public house dating from 1905, built by Alfred Nuttall, with minor late twentieth-century alterations. The building is constructed of buff sandstone with ashlar dressings beneath a Welsh slate roof, and features PVC windows.

The pub follows a double-pile plan with a single-pile rear range and a single-storey rear outshut. The front elevation is two storeys tall (with a cellar) and three bays wide, facing south-west. The main structure is of regularly-coursed snecked stone with dressed-stone sill-bands, first-floor lintel band and quoins, moulded kneelers and cornice, and a low plinth. Windows have chamfered, dressed-stone surrounds. The central entrance is distinguished by pilasters and a moulded canopy with consoles, with the original nine-panelled oak door. To the left is a two-light mullioned window with a scallop-shell plaque above bearing the date '1905'. To the right is a single window with a segmental relieving arch above and scroll carving in the tympanum. Narrower windows are positioned above these and the entrance. Stone chimney stacks rise at the right gable and left ridge. The ridge is finished with crested red clay tiles.

The north-west wall is gabled to the front range with stone coping. Each floor has a narrow window just forward of the ridge, a wider window to the rear of the ridge, and paired windows at the rear, all with dressed-stone surrounds and sill bands. At ground floor, the single-storey rear outshut is set back on this elevation.

The north-east (rear) wall is blind at first-floor level except for the stair window, and features twin gables each with a short chimney stack. The single-storey outshut has twin hipped roofs with plain windows and doors.

The south-east side is similar to the north-west, partially obscured at the left by the toilets, with a central doorway accessing the drinking lobby.

Internally, the pub centres around an impressive decorative drinking lobby with the servery positioned at right angles, presenting its narrow end to the right side of the lobby, and a drinking corridor running along the far side of the servery.

Access to the drinking lobby is via a small entrance lobby with a terrazzo floor and decorative tiling on the left wall, and a glazed timber screen with an inner door bearing modern etched glass reading 'butcher brigg'. The drinking lobby and corridor feature floor-to-ceiling tiling on the walls, with dark green skirting and bands, anthemion borders, floral tiles and an Art Nouveau frieze comprising two rows of tiles with leaves and a row of flower heads. All rooms retain timber panelled ceilings and moulded cornices. Arranged clockwise from the entrance, the lobby serves a Commercial Room, Parlour, Public Kitchen and Bar Parlour. Each has pedimented Jacobean timber door surrounds and panelled doors with glazing etched with Art Nouveau patterns and room names. Immediately to the right of the entrance into the drinking lobby, the wall is tiled only below the cornice, with a dado of embossed wallpaper below, and the Smoke Room is accessed via a wide doorless opening. The drinking lobby retains a terrazzo floor beneath the carpet.

The servery has tiled fronts to the lobby and corridor, and a canted entrance on the corner with a timber gate and door surround with an overlight etched with Art Nouveau designs and 'Bar'. Vertical sliding serving hatches feature Art Nouveau etched glass with plain glass above. The mirrored bar backs are original.

The Commercial Room has a wood block floor, slatted wooden seating around the walls, a fireplace and original ceiling light. The Parlour features a decorative carved baffle, upholstered fixed bench seating all around, half panelling and an Art Nouveau tiled cast fireplace. The Public Kitchen has a herringbone quarry-tiled floor, bare slatted fixed bench seating all around, two deep etched and frosted glass windows, and a fireplace with wood surround, tiles and a cast-iron fire. The Bar Parlour has a decorative carved baffle, upholstered fixed bench seating with carved pine-cone and husk designs and panelling above, and a fireplace with wood surround, green-glazed brick and a cast-iron fire. The Smoke Room has hatches and a tiled front to the servery matching those of the lobby, as well as a small serving hatch to the former jug department.

An open Jacobean-style mahogany staircase opposite the entrance ascends through the lobby tiling to private quarters thought to retain original fireplaces and other decorative features including cast-iron radiators matching those downstairs. The stair window features leaded and coloured glass.

Attached walls with entrances and gate piers flank the street frontage on either side. The former bowling green has a stone wall to the street with ramped copings and recessed panels. The side and rear yards are setted. In the north corner stands an outbuilding of one and two storeys in similar stone to the pub, thought to be a former brew-house and store.