26, Victoria Square

This is a house built in 1862, likely designed by J.A. Clark. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with lateral stacks and has slate and pantile hipped roofs. The house follows a double-depth plan and is in the Italianate style. It is three storeys high with a basement, and has a three-window front. The left side of the facade projects and features pilasters with rusticated ground floor, first floor panelling, and second floor incised decoration, all topped by bracketed stone eaves. Steps lead to the central doorways, which have pilasters, panelled overlights, cornices, and two-panel doors. A Doric porch with three-quarter columns and a segmental pediment covers the entrances. A three-light bay window is present on the left, featuring panelled lintels and balustrades. Semiround-arched windows have foliate capitals, moulded archivolts, and panelled aprons, with a pair of windows on the left side. Tripartite return stair windows are on the right, and cast iron basket balconies are found on the rear windows. The stacks have cornices. Inside, the large central stair hall contains a dogleg staircase with cast iron balusters, modillion and vine cornices, four-panel doors, panelled shutters, and a good black marble fireplace with consoles in the front left room.