15, Victoria Road

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 VICTORIA ROAD 673-1/8/269 (South side) No.15

GV II

Shop with house above. c1830. Plastered stone rubble, front is plastered timber-framing; stacks in left side wall with rendered brick chimneyshafts and pots; hipped slate roof. PLAN: Double-depth. Original house doorway on left (east) side (off Lake Street) behind the shop. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window front. Ground-floor shop with simple late C19/early C20 timber shop front with 2-light windows each side of bottom-panelled glazed double doors, plain pilasters with moulded caps to fascia (left end on return). Plastered 2-window front above; tall original 12-pane sashes with timber pedimented heads to the first floor, and C20 casements without glazing bars under original timber segmental pediment heads to second floor. Low parapet has flat coping with continuous fluting along its narrow front edge. Parallel roof hipped to left. Left end wall includes a shallow panel representing the position of the original doorway to the house. Blind window towards front and rear at first-floor level. INTERIOR: Not inspected. The house forms part of an important group of early C19 buildings overlooking the Market Square, which was developed in the 1820s on land reclaimed from the old mill pool. New Road (now Victoria Road) was built in 1825 to enable, for the first time, horse-drawn carriages in and out of the town.

Listing NGR: SX8767851358