1 And 3, Victoria Road

1 and 3 Victoria Road are a pair of shops with houses above, built around 1825, with some later 19th and 20th-century alterations. The buildings feature mixed construction, with plastered stone rubble side walls and a slate-hung timber-framed front. They have lateral and rear end stacks with rendered chimney shafts and a slate roof.

The shops are three storeys high with attics and have a symmetrical three-window front. The ground floor has late 19th or early 20th-century shop fronts. No. 1 features two lights with a recessed central doorway, which now has a 20th-century door beneath a plain overlight. The outer arch includes ornate iron brackets and a grille, while the right end has a plain pilaster under a shaped bracket supporting a fascia with a moulded cornice that returns to another pilaster and bracket. No. 3 has a simpler shop front with two bays and a central recessed doorway, also with a 20th-century door.

On the first floor, there are large 16-pane sash windows on either side of a narrow 8-pane sash. The second floor has similar windows, but the flanking windows are 12-pane sashes. The eaves are plain, and the roofs run parallel to the street, hipped at the front, each containing a front dormer window under a monopitch roof. The left side of No. 1 facing Anzac Street has been altered; it features a blocked round-headed alcove where the original door was located, with a 20th-century door set further back, and the windows are now 20th-century sashes with glazing bars. The west side of No. 3 retains more original features, including a doorway in its correct position.

The interior has not been inspected. This building is part of an early 19th-century development in the area linked to the filling in of the old mill pool and the construction of the market. New Road was built in 1825, allowing horse-drawn carriages to enter and exit the town for the first time. The buildings are included for their group value.