Victoria House

SW 98 SE ST ENDELLION FORE STREET, (south side), Port Isaac 9/86 No 12 (Victoria House) 6.6.69 GV II Shop premises. Circa early C18. Rendered and painted stone rubble with asbestos slate roof with hipped end to front. 1-room plan with blocked fireplace to rear originally heated by truncated axial chimney stack and entrance to second floor premises beyond to rear left. 2 storeys, symmetrical single window front. Ground floor with C19 shop front with pilasters and moulded cornice, two 4-pane windows with heavy glazing bars and central partly glazed 4-panel door. First floor with circa late C18 Palladian window with central light replaced. Second floor with tripartite early C19 sash without horns. Interior with fairly slight ceiling beams to ground and first floor, C19/C20 softwood stair in shop and blocked fireplace retaining C19 chimney-piece on ground floor. Second floor not inspected. Victoria house is reputed to have had a balcony from which John Wesley preached in the C18. Penna, R A Walk through Port Isaac 1984.

Listing NGR: SW9968180769