15, Victoria Road

No. 15 Victoria Road is a shop with a house above, dating from around 1830. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble, with the front featuring plastered timber-framing. The building has stacks in the left side wall with rendered brick chimney shafts and pots, and a hipped slate roof. The plan is double-depth, with the original house doorway located on the left (east) side, accessed from Lake Street behind the shop.

The exterior is two storeys high with a two-window front. The ground floor has a simple late 19th century to early 20th century timber shop front, which includes two-light windows on either side of bottom-panelled glazed double doors, and plain pilasters with moulded caps to the fascia, with the left end on the return. Above, the plastered two-window front features tall original 12-pane sashes with timber pedimented heads on the first floor, and 20th century casements without glazing bars under original timber segmental pediment heads on the second floor. A low parapet with flat coping and continuous fluting runs along the narrow front edge. The parallel roof is hipped to the left. The left end wall has a shallow panel indicating the position of the original doorway to the house, with blind windows towards the front and rear at the first-floor level.

The interior has not been inspected. This building is part of an important group of early 19th century structures overlooking the Market Square, which was developed in the 1820s on land reclaimed from the old mill pool. New Road, now Victoria Road, was constructed in 1825 to allow horse-drawn carriages to enter and exit the town for the first time.