63, Victoria Road

This is a mid-19th century end house within a terrace on the south side of Victoria Road in Dartmouth. The house is built of plastered stone rubble, with end stacks featuring painted brick chimneyshafts and slate roof. The plan is double-depth with an entrance passage to the left and a small service block to the rear.

The external appearance is of three storeys and a two-window front. There is a plaster band at first-floor level. A round-headed doorway to the left has a moulded stucco surround broken by vermiculated rustication, containing a recessed six-panel door and a plain fanlight. The windows are all 19th century four-pane sashes, with unusual horizontal glazing bars to the taller ground- and first-floor windows. Each window has a moulded architrave and sills, with Tudor-style hoodmoulds incorporating leafy label stops above the first- and second-floor windows. Projecting eaves have a plastered soffit.

The interior has not been inspected. Number 63 is the left end of the terrace, which continues with numbers 65-79 (odd) and number 81. Both Number 63 and 81 are taller than the houses in between and share a unified architectural style. The terrace, along with numbers 65-79 and 81, forms a good group of houses and shops that date from the mid-19th century, along Victoria Road, which was built in 1825 to allow horse-drawn carriages to access the town.