Description

DARTMOUTH

SX8751 VICTORIA ROAD
673-1/5/287 (South side)
23/10/72 Nos.99 AND 99A
(Formerly Listed as:
VICTORIA ROAD
(South side)
No.99)

GV II

Pair of houses, now one dwelling. Circa mid C19; refurbished in 1990. Plastered stone rubble; 3 rear lateral and axial stacks with plastered brick
chimneyshafts and old pots; slate roof.
PLAN: Double-depth; No.99 is 2 rooms wide with central
entrance hall and staircase, and full-depth parlour to left.
No.99A is one room wide with entrance hall and staircase to
left. Converted into one house, No.99A on the right now the service end of the house.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; regular 3:1-window front. Plastered front
is lightly blocked out as ashlar and includes flat pilasters,
one each end and another between the 2 houses. 12-pane sashes
(except blind window over doorway to No.99), all with stucco
Tudor-style hoodmoulds. Both doorways have stucco doorcases,
flat Tuscan pilasters with moulded entablatures, and contain
6-panel doors. Deep eaves with plastered soffit. Roof
is gable-ended and contains C20 dormers to rear. Right end
wall is slate-hung and has plain bargeboards. Left end wall
has an enclosed verandah, weather-boarded, with a 6-panel door
and windows with vertical pattern of glazing bars; first-floor
canted bay containing horned 8-pane sashes and, under the
gable, a lancet with hoodmould. Gable has open wavey
bargeboards with timber finial and pendant.
INTERIOR: Modernised in 1990 but still contains original
features including stick-baluster stairs, moulded plaster
cornices, panelled doors and marble chimneypieces, that on ground floor of Devon limestone/ marble and the fireplace above with flanking panelled and pilastered cupboards.
This is one of a good group of houses dating from the mid 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: SX8731851241

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512932

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)