25 Victoria Road

The building comprises two houses, numbers 24 and 25 Victoria Road, built in the late 19th century, displaying an asymmetrical design. The ground floors are constructed of red brick, with some bathstone dressings, notably on the porch of number 25 Victoria Road. The upper floors are rendered with pargetting, incorporating half-timbering to Victoria Road and red fish-scale tile hanging. The roofs are covered in artificial slate, with tall red brick chimney stacks and red-tiled roofs over ground-floor projections.

The south elevation of number 24 Archer Road features a hipped roof to the left with a small dormer, and an oriel dormer under a raking roof facing the road. A two-storey splayed bay extends to the right of the elevation, beneath a gable with strapwork pargetting. The first floor of this bay contains sash windows with wooden mullions and transoms; the ground floor, set slightly forward and covered by red fish-scale tiles, features a bathstone mullioned and transomed window with sash glazing. To the left of the bay on the first floor are a two-light and a three-light window. On the ground floor is a bay window in the angle and an entrance porch with a broad segmental head and bathstone dressings. The entrance door is set back with a window to the left and a window to the right in the splay.

The south elevation of number 25 Victoria Road (facing Archer Road) exhibits a boldly projecting semi-octagonal bay with a splayed hipped roof extending to attic level. A four-light dormer sits under a raking roof to the left. The first floor of the bay has sash windows with wooden mullions and transoms, along with a four-light window to the left. The ground floor, beneath shallow tiled roofs, has a three-light window to the right and a semi-hexagonal bay window to the left. The entrance front faces east (Victoria Road) and has two asymmetrical gables on the half-timbered first floor, with a three-light window between them. Two tall red brick chimneys are present. The first floor has a two-light and a smaller single-light window. The ground floor projects forward under a red-tiled roof. To the left, a bathstone porch features a half-timbered gable over a three-centred arched doorway adorned with foliage reliefs on the jambs. To the right of the door is a ‘Venetian’ window with stained glass. A convex return shows strapwork relief and a multi-light window. To the right of the porch is a single-storey red brick service wing with camber-headed sash glazing. A further gable marks the north return.

The houses are complemented by boundary walls constructed of red brick with bathstone copings, gate piers with bathstone quoins and moulded capstones.