99 And 99A, Victoria Road

99 and 99A Victoria Road is a pair of houses, now functioning as a single dwelling, dating from around the mid-19th century and refurbished in 1990. The structure is made of plastered stone rubble and features three rear lateral and axial stacks with plastered brick chimney shafts and old pots, topped with a slate roof.

The layout is double-depth; No. 99 has two rooms wide with a central entrance hall and staircase, and a full-depth parlour to the left. No. 99A is one room wide with its entrance hall and staircase to the left, now serving as the service end of the combined house.

The exterior is two storeys high with a regular three-to-one window arrangement. The plastered front is designed to resemble ashlar and includes flat pilasters at both ends and another between the two houses. The windows are 12-pane sashes, except for a blind window above the doorway to No. 99, all featuring stucco Tudor-style hoodmoulds. Both doorways have stucco doorcases with flat Tuscan pilasters and moulded entablatures, containing six-panel doors. The deep eaves have a plastered soffit, and the gable-ended roof has 20th-century dormers at the rear. The right end wall is slate-hung with plain bargeboards, while the left end wall features an enclosed weather-boarded verandah with a six-panel door and windows with a vertical pattern of glazing bars. The first-floor has a canted bay with horned eight-pane sashes and a lancet window under the gable, which has open wavy bargeboards with a timber finial and pendant.

Inside, the house was modernised in 1990 but retains original features such as stick-baluster stairs, moulded plaster cornices, panelled doors, and marble chimneypieces. The ground floor fireplace is made of Devon limestone and marble, with flanking panelled and pilastered cupboards. This building is part of a notable group of mid-19th century houses along New Street (now Victoria Road), which was constructed in 1825 to allow horse-drawn carriages access to the town for the first time.