Victoria Cottage

Victoria Cottage is a former shop and house built around 1840, with the shopfront added in 1842. It is located on the north side of Weston Road and was originally part of a nursery garden. The building features limestone ashlar construction and slate roofs, with the house having a hipped roof and moulded stacks.

The exterior is two storeys high with a six-window front. This includes three windows in a canted bay on the right, which may date from the late 19th century. The bay has stone brackets at the eaves, a first-floor sill band, and trefoil-headed recesses above each ground floor window. The windows are six-over-six pane sash windows, with horns on those in the bay. A projecting stone porch with a shallow pedimented blocking course and coved cornice leads to a 20th-century door. To the left, there is a single-storey, two-window lean-to added in the 20th century.

The right side of the shop has a single-storey, two-window wing that connects to the house, featuring six-over-six pane sash windows flanking double 20th-century doors beneath a swept canopy from around 1840 supported by trellised supports. The classical shop front includes four panelled pilasters that support an entablature and pediment, framing a wide central opening with double nine-pane windows and narrower six-pane windows with margin panes on either side. Iron fixings for former shutters can still be seen on the left side. A block set back to the left has a four-centred arched window with Gothick glazing.

Historically, these premises were known as W.H. Coles, Nurseryman, seedsman, and florist, making it a rare example of an early Victorian plantsman's premises with a notable shop front.