Victoria House

Victoria House comprises an inn, now a house (No. 41) and a shop (No. 43), with a front range dating back to the 15th century, incorporating an earlier north crosswing, a 16th-century northwest wing, and alterations in the early 18th century. The building is timber-framed, plastered to the front, with roughcast or dark weatherboarded rear sections. It features steep old red tile roofs.

The structure is a large, two-storey, U-shaped group, formerly the Angel Inn. A carriageway entrance leads to a yard, centrally located. An early 19th-century stair tower was added to the rear angle, alongside a jettied northwest wing. Twin blocked, hollow-moulded service doors are on the north side of the carriageway. The presence of mortices for an axial partition in the bay to the north suggests the carriageway represents the lower bay of the hall, with a parlour at the south end and a later hipped extension to the west.

The front features a lower, jettied, and gabled crosswing at the north end, containing a rectangular oriel window on bold brackets to the first floor. A 19th-century three-light shop window and a half-glazed door are also present. More elaborate plasterwork adorns the remainder of the front, including a deep coved cornice below the higher continuous front jetty, six foliate brackets, rusticated quoins to the ground floor, and flush box triple sash windows with small panes flanking the carriageway. A six-panel door (No. 41) has a Gibbs surround, an exaggerated triple keystone, and a triangular pediment. A flush box sash window to the left of the door has a moulded surround and 6/6 panes in broad glazing bars. The upper part has fan pargetting, four flush box sash windows with 6/6 panes, and overhanging eaves. The roof along the front range is a crown-post roof with square posts and axial bracing to the collar purlin.

Remains of wallpaintings on the ground floor of No. 41 surround the fireplace, dating from two periods. The earlier ones are of skillful execution and solid color, displaying two angels holding the Scrope arms on a shield, a shield of the Trinity, a figure of a saint, and a sunburst patterned ground. Later work overlaps the earlier designs, featuring a semi-nude shrouded figure and a Roman-lettered inscription. An elaborate moulded fireplace lintol is also present. The interior of No. 43 exhibits exposed close-studding, tension braces, and heavy flat joists.