The Victoria Hotel

PAIGNTON

SX8860 PRINCES STREET 1947-1/5/78 (North West side) 10/01/75 No.31 The Victoria Hotel

GV II

Public house and hotel. c1850s. Rendered; slate roof hipped at left end, gabled at right end; stacks with rendered shafts with platbands and old pots. PLAN: Double-depth rectangular plan, adjacent to old brewery building in the same street (qv). EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. Asymmetrical 4-window front plus canted bay to the corner with Well Street. Platbands at first and second-floor sill level. Bar frontage has lead-roofed fascia; 3 doors with rectangular overlights with rounded upper corners (doors C20 replacements). The left-hand doors flank a bar window with cast-iron columns to left and right; further bar window at extreme left; 12-pane sash and cellar loading door at extreme right end. First and 2nd-floor windows 12-pane sashes except left-hand bay and canted corner where they have been reglazed as 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. Canted corner has former doorway (converted to window) flanked by moulded claping pilasters with capitals. 2-bay front to Well Street. The bar fascia continues for one bay, with one window; blind recesses above. 4-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars to the left-hand with wall of single-storey service block and yard to left-hand. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SX8856060857