The Victoria Inn

The Victoria Inn is a public house dating to 1823-5, constructed as part of the development of Oxford Street for John Bowyer, an attorney. It is located at the corner of Oxford Street where it turns northeast, and was built alongside numbers 2-20 Oxford Street. The exterior features roughcast render on brick, with stone details, and a slate roof. The building has three storeys and a cellar, with offset plinths, a first-floor string course, and a crowning string course and parapet. A moulded crowning cornice, similar to that on the adjoining terrace, has been removed. Raised stone quoins are visible at the northwest corner.

The west front features a principal entrance on the left, framed by a wide opening with a moulded architrave, raised keystone, and timber frame. The doorway includes sidelights with margin glazing and a rectangular transom light with glazing bars arranged in a diamond pattern. A 20th-century window is located to the right of the doorway, within an original opening. Above the doorway, on the first floor, is a shaped sign panel inscribed "BANKS/THE VICTORIA INN." The first floor has three tall horned sash windows, and the second floor three shorter horned sashes, all with glazing bars (first floor 3x4 panes, second floor 3x3 panes). The northwest front has two windows mirroring the details of the ground-floor window on the west front, and a doorway with a fanlight in a similar architrave frame. The first floor has two sashes and the second floor two sashes, matching those on the west front. A sign panel, matching the one on the west front, sits between the first-floor sashes. The interior of the ground floor contains no features of particular interest, and the remainder of the building was not inspected.