3-9 (Odd Nos) Victoria Place

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 development; 3 storeys, rectangular-plan with 2-storey angled block to left; part of a municipal housing development near harbour. Cavity brick construction, predominantly painted harl with red sandstone random rubble at ground floor E and N elevation, forestairs and base course to W elevation. Concrete walkway, treads, balconies and projecting narrow cills; iron balustrades. Some raised windows in architraves.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: flatted ground floor with 3 bays to right advanced to form exterior entrance walkway at 1st floor to maisonettes and angled block; dog-leg exterior stair to left; vennel beneath top landing of stair. Single entrance door with original glazed sidelight to left at 1st floor (No. 5.); single entrance doors with half glazed sidelight to right of centre at ground and 1st floor; single entrance door to centre of angled block. Balcony to right of centre at 2nd floor.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: irregular fenestration; random rubble section separating some windows.

Variety of replacement glazing and doors. Pantiled roofs; harled and coped ridge and end stacks with cylindrical clay cans.

INTERIORS (partially seen 2010): simple plan-forms of flats and maisonettes intact.