The Little Clock House

The Little Clock House is a shop with a house above, likely built around 1825, with some later 19th and 20th-century modernizations. It features mixed construction, including stone rubble and plastered timber-framed fronts, and has no visible chimney shafts. The building has a slate roof and stands three storeys tall with a two-window range.

The exterior has plaster fronts that are lightly blocked out to resemble ashlar. The late 19th-century timber shop front on Victoria Road consists of two bays flanked by reeded pilasters with simple caps and a fascia with a moulded cornice above the jettied first-floor level. This fascia extends to the left over the house doorway, which has a 20th-century panelled door. The shop doorway is located in the canted right corner and features a bottom-panelled glazed door. Above this, towards the right end, is a horned 4-pane sash window. The Foss Street return maintains a similar style, with the shop front continuing for two bays from the corner doorway and the fascia extending to the property boundary.

At the right end is the original house doorway, which has a plain overlight. Although this doorway is blocked by a display window, the lower panels of the door are still visible. The first floor has a central pair of horned 4-pane sash windows, with one window at each end on the second floor. Notably, there is a 19th-century circular clock face recessed into the wall on the left side of the first floor, made by WH Howe of Dartmouth. The building has plain eaves and a hipped roof that runs up Foss Street.

Historically, Victoria Road was constructed in 1825 to allow horse-drawn carriages to enter and exit the town for the first time, coinciding with the development of the reclaimed land from the old mill pond. This corner building is part of an attractive group with the shops on Foss Street.