5 Victoria Place

Terraced house, now commercial premises, painted stucco, with slate roof behind parapet and red brick left end stack. Three storeys, two-bay front with giant pilasters framing narrow right bay (left pilaster actually part of No 3). Pilasters have simple stepped caps and plinths. Entablature over with deep frieze and simple cornice, broken forward over right bay, parapet over, also broken forward. Windows are sashes with narrow marginal panes: narrower to the entrance bay and longer on the first floor than above. Ground floor main bay has large square shop window of 16 fixed panes and narrower window (former door) of 8-panes to right. To the left, the arched house entry with marginal glazing to radiating bar fanlight, and modern six-panel part-glazed door. Blue plaque on pier to left of door recording that the painter Augustus John was born here in 1878 and lived here until he was five.

Ground floor altered.