Victoria Hotel, Bath

Stone-built corner pub, built 1890. The three-room layout is intact, but there has been much modernisation and tinkering. The small lounge on the right is the best room, separated from an L-shaped corridor by a timber screen with 1930s leaded glass; there is similar glasswork on the other side of the corridor, plus in the two lounge doors with the room name; there is a stone fireplace in this room, probably 1960s and the bar counter is of a similar date. Rear-centre is a small plain 'smoke room' with a door to the rear garden. The large left-hand bar has no old fixtures, except for a lobby with more of the 1930s leaded glass. The central servery is much altered and opened-out, with relatively modern counters, wide openings and down lights, although there is an odd but good little 1950s 'gantry' in the middle. There are a few free-standing benches in each room, but there would have been more originally. On the first floor is a 'Club Room' with no fixed furniture, but with an intact long skittles alley still in regular use.