Description

DARTMOUTH

SX8751 VICTORIA ROAD
673-1/5/278 (North side)
23/10/72 No.44
Ford House and attached garden
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
VICTORIA ROAD
(North side)
No.44
Ford House)

GV II

House. c1840. Plastered stone rubble; front and rear lateral
stacks, mostly disused, but one still has a plastered brick
chimneyshaft with old pots; slate roof.
PLAN: Double-depth, with entrance hall and staircase to left.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attics. Street front is
blind except for the front doorway which contains a recessed
part-glazed 6-panel door with vertical mouldings to the bottom
panels. Garden front is a symmetrical 2-window range between
end pilasters. Central doorway to the basement contains
another 6-panel door, similar to the main door. Flanking
12-pane sashes with margin glazing. Ground floor has tall
French windows onto a cast-iron balcony with ornamental
balustrade. 12-pane sashes to first floor. According to the
owner old photographs show this side with stucco Tudor-style
hoodmoulds. Deep eaves with plastered soffit and hipped roof
with gabled dormer incorporating pair of horned 4-pane sashes
to garden front.
INTERIOR: Well-preserved with a large number of original
features including a stick-baluster stair, marble
chimneypieces, moulded plaster cornices and panelled doors.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: The road embankment forms the street side
of the garden. It is revetted with stone and has ornamental
cast-iron railings.
This is one of a good group of houses dating from the second
quarter of the C19 alongside New Street (now Victoria Road)
which was built in 1825 to enable, for the first time,
horse-drawn carriages in and out of the town.

Listing NGR: SX8729151251

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584674

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings