Victoria House

Victoria House is a shop premises located on Fore Street in Port Isaac, dating from the early 18th century. The building is constructed from rendered and painted stone rubble and features an asbestos slate roof with a hipped end at the front. It has a one-room plan with a blocked fireplace at the rear, which was originally heated by a truncated axial chimney stack. There is an entrance to a second-floor space located at the rear left.

The building stands two storeys high with a symmetrical single window front. The ground floor has a 19th-century shop front that includes pilasters and a moulded cornice, along with two four-pane windows featuring heavy glazing bars and a central partly glazed four-panel door. The first floor showcases a late 18th-century Palladian window, although the central light has been replaced. The second floor contains a tripartite early 19th-century sash window without horns.

Inside, the ground and first floors have fairly slight ceiling beams, and there is a 19th/20th-century softwood stair in the shop area. The ground floor also retains a blocked fireplace with a 19th-century chimney-piece. The second floor was not inspected. Victoria House is reputed to have had a balcony from which John Wesley preached in the 18th century.