The Victoria

TOLLESBURY HIGH STREET TL 9410-9510 (north side) 8/26 No. 44 (The Victoria) GV II

House. C15, altered in C17 and C20. Timber framed with some brick, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall aligned N-S, with early C17 axial stack in S bay. 2-bay extension to S (replacing original service bay), C17/C18. The parlour/solar bay to the N is incorporated in Victoria Cottage, item 8/30, q.v. Passage along E side covered and incorporated with house. C20 single-storey extension to E of N end. One storey with attics. S elevation (to High Street), ground floor, 2 early C19 casements of 18 lights, blocked doorway with simple pilasters and canopy on profiled brackets, converted to 2 windows. First floor, one Cl9 sash. C20 half-glazed door with plain fanlight. The interior of the original build has jowled posts, widely spaced heavy studding, truncated arched braces rising from the middle posts of the hall, but middle tiebeam removed for inserted stack. Edge-halved and bridled scarf in W wallplate. Rebates for shutters of hall windows in both wallplates. Inserted floor in hall, with chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, joists plastered to the soffits, original rebated floorboards of hardwood. Crownpost roof plastered to the soffits of the collars, axial braces removed. In the S extension, chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of square section. Large wood-burning hearth of 0.33 metre brickwork facing N, reduced for C20 grate, and smaller wood-burning hearth facing S. Formerly The Victoria public house.

Listing NGR: TL9545410478