19A, 19B, 19C Victoria Street iincluding boundary walls, Dunbar

Basil Spence and Partners, 1948-51 (Basil Spence, partner-in-charge; Hardie Glover, job architect; Andrew Renton, designer; Bruce Robertson, partner in charge; Sarah McCosh; Bill Rowarth; James Beveridge, Richard Cassidy). Modernist with vernacular references housing; 4-bay 3-storey, stepped rectangular-plan block adjoined at SW corner to 4-bay, 2-storey rectangular-plan block; part of a municipal housing development set around drying green near harbour. Cavity brick construction, predominantly painted harl with red sandstone random rubble base course and ground of 3-storey block. Concrete walkway, treads, balconies, some lintels, projecting narrow cills, projecting surrounds to balcony openings and stepped cantilevered canopies to entrances of maisonettes entrances; iron balustrades. Some raised windows in architraves

RECTANGULAR BLOCK TO N (19A-C VICTORIA STREET): flatted ground floor advanced to form exterior entrance walkway at 1st floor to maisonettes; exterior stair to 1st floor to N elevation. Panelled timber entrance door with half glazed sidelights to maisonettes. Irregular fenestration; window opening at ground floor wrapping around SE corner. Balcony at 2nd floor to outer right of N elevation. Ground floor stores to west and underneath forestair.

RECTANGULAR BLOCK TO S (10 AND 12 WRITER'S COURT): 2 2-bay maisonettes, near-symmetrical, running N-S. Random rubble to centre of ground floor opening of E elevation. Balcony at 1st floor to outer left of E elevation and left of W (rear) elevation. Entrance doors at side (gable) elevations accessed by small forestairs to E elevations.

Variety of replacement uPVC glazing and doors. Pantile pitched roofs; harled and coped ridge and end stacks, with circular clay cans.

INTERIORS (partially seen 2010): simple plan-forms of flats and maisonettes generally intact; fisherman stores to ground floor.

BOUNDARY WALLS: red sandstone random rubble with concrete copes, stepped as ground falls away.