12, Victoria Road

No. 12 Victoria Road is a house, now divided into flats, built around 1830 with some 20th-century alterations. The building features plastered stone rubble and some slate-hanging, with end stacks that have rendered brick chimney shafts and pots, topped by a slate roof.

The structure is double-depth, two rooms wide, with a central entrance hall. It stands two storeys tall and has a symmetrical three-window plastered front, flanked by plain end pilasters. The central round-headed doorway has a flat stucco surround and a moulded entablature. It features a recessed round-headed nine-panel door with an integral fanlight. The 12-pane sash windows have lost glazing bars from the lower sashes, and all windows are adorned with eared flat stucco architraves. The eaves are plain, and the roof is hipped at both ends. The left end wall is slate-hung and painted, while the rear has 20th-century windows with glazing bars.

The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest. This house is part of a notable group of houses and shops from the second quarter of the 19th century along New Road (now Victoria Road), which was constructed in 1825 to allow horse-drawn carriages to enter and exit the town for the first time.