Victoria House

Victoria House is a house, largely of the early 18th century, incorporating an earlier, narrower structure dating from the 16th or 17th century at its southern end. The windows were altered in the early 19th century. The main house is timber-framed and faced with plum and blue brick, with light red brick dressings, while the southern part is roughcast. It has steep old red tile roofs. The house is of a two-storey and attic, two-cell design, with a central entrance plan, set slightly back from the road facing west. It includes a gabled rear staircase turret and a one-and-a-half-storey southern wing.

Originally, the central entrance opened directly into the hall, which has a large rear wall chimney narrowing the room to the rear. The parlour to the north has an axial beam and a corner fireplace in the northeast angle. The southern wing was probably originally a service wing, but was converted into a study with a southeast corner fireplace when a 19th-century kitchen was added to the rear.

The symmetrical west front of the main part of the house has a plat band and a deep, painted, modillioned eaves cornice with considerable projection. There are two small two-light casement box dormers on the roof slope. The light red brick jambs and flat gauged arches reveal that there were originally five narrow sash windows on the first floor and two each side of the central door. These were altered in the early 19th century to three flush box sash windows with 8/8 panes on the first floor and a triple sash window on each side of the door. The front door is six-panelled, with the top two panels glazed, set within a wooden doorcase featuring panelled pilasters, consoles, a full entablature and a triangular pediment. The roughcast southern part has a two-light 18th-century leaded casement window on the first floor. The attic of the main house is also lit by a two-light casement in the south gable.

The interior features a staircase rising to attic level, altered in the 19th century. The hall has a plastered beam, a moulded cornice, six-panel moulded doors, a dentilled wooden fire surround with stone slips, and a half-round back. An old door and doorway leads to a chamber above, with another doorway cut away to create a late 18th-century doorway into a chamber above the parlour. The attics are plastered and have 19th-century fireplaces. The older southern part has stepped jowls, long straight tension braces, and curved wind-braces to roof purlins. It also has a two-light late 17th/early 18th-century leaded casement on the south gable.