Victoria House

Victoria House is a near-symmetrical pair of 3-storey terraced houses at 11-13 Church Street. The buildings are constructed with scribed and painted roughcast walls beneath a slate roof with deeply moulded and corbelled eaves; roughcast end stacks rise above the roofline.

The houses are organised around 2 main bays, though asymmetry is introduced by an additional bay on the left side of No. 11. This extra bay incorporates a passage leading to the rear of the houses, a feature retained from an earlier school that previously occupied the site.

The principal elevations feature pilasters with fluted capitals framing the middle-storey windows, with a sill band below and string course above. The central doorways, positioned to the inner sides of each house, are sheltered beneath hipped canopies supported on deep moulded cornices and openwork iron brackets; these canopies have iron cresting and panelled soffits. Both doorways contain half-lit fielded-panel doors with replaced overlights.

The flanking bays rise through 2 storeys as canted bay windows articulated by thin colonnettes. In the lower storey, smaller middle-storey windows are capped with hipped roofs forming aprons—a feature missing from No. 13—decorated with iron cresting. The lower-storey windows incorporate transoms with leaded lights above. The middle storey contains wood-framed cross windows with casements, while other windows throughout are 4-pane sashes. Upper-storey windows are positioned outside the line of the bays beneath them.

The left-hand bay of No. 11 features a chamfered doorway opening to a boarded door studded with iron and fitted with an inserted glazed panel, sheltered under a moulded cornice on corbels. Above this doorway is a blank panel, with sash windows serving the middle and upper storeys.

To the rear, a lower 2-storey gabled wing extends, with 4-pane sash windows.