Boathouse Tavern

The Boathouse Tavern is a public house, likely built in the late 17th century, with later alterations. It features squared stone with cut dressings and is stuccoed and painted. The building has a blue slate roof topped with a 20th-century brick chimney. The south front consists of two storeys and is divided into two parts. The taller right section has an open pediment and two bays, with rusticated quoins. There is a renewed door with an overlight in the right bay, framed by an architrave with a pulvinated frieze and a segmental pediment. The renewed windows are set in similar architraves with moulded sills on brackets, and triangular pediments that include stylised foliage carvings. The four-bay right return has a blocked doorway with a raised stone surround. The interior has been significantly altered.

This building is probably the oldest in Blyth and was connected to a brewery in the 19th century, which has since been demolished. Extensive brick-arched cellars are believed to lie beneath the entire site. The lower six-bay section to the left of the 17th-century block is a later addition, altered and not of special interest.