91 And 93, Victoria Road

91 and 93 Victoria Road is a house dating from around 1840, with possible origins in the 18th century. It is constructed from plastered stone rubble and features axial, end, and rear lateral stacks with plastered and exposed brick chimney shafts topped with old pots. The roof is hipped and covered with slate.

The house is terraced into the hillside and consists of two storeys with a cellar at the upper end, where the main rooms are located, and three storeys at the lower service end. There are attics as well. The front of the house has a three-window range that is not symmetrical and displays an attractive plastered exterior that is lightly blocked out to resemble ashlar, showcasing a Tudor-Gothic style.

The central doorway features a stucco Tuscan doorcase with flat pilasters, moulded caps, and a flat moulded entablature. Above the door, there are presumably 20th-century stair windows, including a small bullseye window below and a narrow eight-pane sash above. The ground-floor right window and all the left windows are 12-pane sashes set beneath stucco Tudor-style hoodmoulds. The right side of the first floor has a curving bay that contains a tripartite sash window with a central 12-pane sash. The eaves are deep with a plastered soffit on the main three sides.

Both the right and left sides of the house also feature three-window ranges of 12-pane sashes with Tudor-style hoodmoulds. The right-hand garden front includes an original slate-roofed verandah supported by timber columns, along with ground-floor French windows that have margin glazing. The centre first-floor window is blind, and there is a wide 20th-century four-light dormer above.

The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest. This house is part of a notable group of buildings from the second quarter of the 19th century along New Street (now Victoria Road), which was constructed in 1825 to allow horse-drawn carriages to access the town for the first time.