12, Victoria Road

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 VICTORIA ROAD 673-1/8/268 (North side) 23/10/72 No.12 (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA ROAD (North side) No.12 Municipal Offices)

GV II

House, now divided into flats. c1830, some C20 alterations. Plastered stone rubble, some slate-hanging; end stacks with rendered brick chimneyshafts and pots; slate roof. PLAN: Double-depth, 2 rooms wide with central entrance hall. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window plastered front flanked by plain end pilasters. Central round-headed doorway has flat stucco surround, with moulded entablature. Recessed round-headed 9-panel door with an integral fanlight. 12-pane sash windows, the ground-floor ones missing glazing bars from the lower sashes, all with eared flat stucco architraves. Plain eaves and roof hipped both ends. Left end wall slate-hung and painted. Rear has C20 windows with glazing bars. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to be of interest. This house is one of a good group of houses and shops dating from the second quarter of the C19 alongside New Road (now Victoria Road) which was built in 1825 along the edge of the infilled mill pond to enable, for the first time, horse-drawn carriages in and out of the town.

Listing NGR: SX8760751357