The Victory Public House

The Victory Public House is a public house, likely converted from an earlier building, dating from the late 19th century and around 1910. It features a rendered exterior with ceramic tiles and a tiled roof. The building is two storeys high with dormers and has a three-window range facing Duke Street. The ground floor is adorned with glazed tiles in light and dark green.

There are flat-arched entrances: one centrally located on the Duke Street front, another on Middle Street near the corner with Duke Street, and a third at the opposite end of the Duke Street front. The first two entrances have scrolled cornices, overlights, and panelled and glazed double doors, while the last has a single door linked to a window. Flanking the central entrance are two windows on Duke Street, and there are two more in Middle Street. These windows are divided by mullions with capitals and feature elliptical arches above with small-paned overlights. The Duke Street windows also have sidelights. The windows include gilded and engraved glass, with some labeled 'TAMPLINS ALES', and possibly some replicas. The fascia and cornice of glazed tiles rise over the Duke Street entrance in a segmental pediment, supported by brackets at either end. The first floor is rendered and has flat-arched windows, with a large ceramic panel under the gable in Middle Street. The Duke Street side has a gambrel roof with two dormers, while the Middle Street side has a lower pitched roof with one dormer.

Inside, the divisions between the public and saloon bars have been removed. There is a notable late 19th-century bar-back consisting of three bays and three shelves with turned balusters, an entablature, and a scrolled pediment at the center. The bar front may date from the same period. A good late 19th-century fireplace is located in the former saloon, featuring bracketed Ionic columns supporting a mantelshelf and overmantel mirror, flanked by pilaster-panels with brackets above and a deep pedimented entablature. The ceiling is decorated with lincrusta, likely from the late 19th or early 20th century.