The Guildhall And Attached Boundary Wall To West

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 VICTORIA ROAD 673-1/8/281 (South side) 23/10/72 The Guildhall and attached boundary wall to west (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA ROAD (South side) Guildhall)

GV II

Guildhall, now municipal offices, originally subscription rooms and school. Dated 1849. Local limestone rubble with Bathstone dressings; slate roof. EXTERIOR: Restrained Tudor style. 2 storeys. Main block has symmetrical 2:2:2-window front with an extra bay to left in taller block; all stone 3-light mullion-and-transom windows, now containing plate glass. Centre 2-window section breaks forward slightly to contain large central Tudor-arch doorway, with the date of 1849 carved onto a plaque directly above. First-floor windows now converted to doorways with upper lights retained as mullioned overlights, and secondary balcony shelters main doorway below. Gable over. Balcony and steps both sides have ornate cast-iron railings. String course at first-floor level interrupted by 2 large weathered buttresses each side. Main roof is gable-ended and steps up to a higher level over left end bay. Front and end gables with shaped kneelers and coping and 2 ventilators with small spires projecting through the ridge of the main block. Right end contains a first-floor 4-light window similar to those on the front. INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: A tall stone boundary wall extends westward from the right-hand end and includes a stone Tudor-arched doorway. This building is one of a good group of buildings dating from the second quarter of the C19 lining New Road (now Victoria Road), which was built in 1825 to enable, for the first time, horse-drawn carriages in and out of town.

Listing NGR: SX8750851296