The Little Clock House

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 VICTORIA ROAD 673-1/8/266 (North side) 23/10/72 No.2 and The Little Clock House

GV II

Shop with house above. Probably c1825, with some later C19 and C20 modernisation. Mixed construction; stone rubble with plastered timber-framed fronts; no visible chimneyshafts; slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. Plaster fronts lightly blocked out as ashlar. Victoria Road has a late C19 timber shop front of 2 bays flanked by reeded pilasters with simple caps and fascia with moulded cornice above jettied first-floor level and carried across to left over house doorway with C20 panelled door. Shop doorway in canted right corner with bottom-panelled glazed door. Horned 4-pane sash window above towards right end. Foss Street (right) return in similar style. Shop front continued 2 bays from corner doorway and fascia continued to property boundary. Original house doorway at right end has plain overlight and, though blocked by a display window, the lower panels of the door show below. Horned 4-pane sash windows above, central pair to the first floor and one each end to the second floor. First-floor left a C19 circular clockface recessed into the wall, made by WH Howe of Dartmouth. Plain eaves to hipped roof running up Foss Street. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Victoria Road was built in 1825 to enable, for the first time, horse-drawn carriages to come in and out of town and was associated with the development of the reclaimed land of the old mill pond. This corner building forms an attractive group with the shops of Foss Street.

Listing NGR: SX8771651390