Description

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 VICTORIA ROAD
673-1/8/270 (South side)
No.17

GV II

Shop with house above. c1830. Stone rubble with front of
roughcast timber-framing; disused stacks with no chimneyshafts
visible; hipped slate roof. Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. Ground-floor shop with
simple late C19/early C20 timber shop front; windows with
vertical glazing bars flank recessed doorway containing a
part-glazed door; each end plain pilasters with moulded caps
to fascia. Roughcast 2-window front above; tall original
12-pane sashes with timber pedimented heads to the first
floor, and C20 casements without glazing bars under original
timber segmental pediment heads to second floor. Low parapet
has flat coping with continuous fluting along its narrow front
edge. Parallel roof gable-ended to right.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
The house forms part of an important group of early C19
buildings overlooking the Market Square, which was developed
in the 1820s on land reclaimed from the old mill pool. New
Road (now Victoria Road) was built in 1825 to enable, for the
first time, horse-drawn carriages in and out of the town.

Listing NGR: SX8767651348

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492045

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy