The Riverside Inn

The Riverside Inn is a house, now an inn, dating from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the mid- to late 18th century. It is constructed of red brick, painted to the front and back, with plain tile roofs. The building has a U-shaped plan with later additions. It is two storeys and has an attic.

The north front has a painted stone plinth with a moulded top, painted chamfered stone quoins, a moulded wooden dentil eaves cornice, moulded footstones, and dentil brick eaves cornices and verges to the sides and rear. There are three gabled eaves dormers with two-light wooden casements, and two large brick ridge stacks on the wings at the rear. The front was refenestrated in the mid- to late 18th century and now has five bays, though only three are visible. The windows are segmental-headed glazing bar sashes; the outer bays are tripartite, but the window on the left has been cut down to create French casements. The central door has six raised and fielded panels, with the top two panels glazed, a pilastered surround, a moulded cornice, and a radial fanlight with a moulded architrave. A two-storey service wing is set back to the left, with a dentil brick eaves cornice, a first-floor segmental-headed glazing bar sash, and a central ground-floor segmental-headed three-light casement, with a small 20th-century casement to the left. A 20th-century one-storey addition projects to the right.

The south front has a 2:1:2 bay arrangement, with a central gable and projecting gabled wings. It features segmental-headed glazing bar sashes, with a later projecting square bay on the ground floor to the left, and 20th-century glazed doors.

The interior was not inspected, but it is noted to contain an early 18th-century staircase with turned balusters and a ramped handrail, and may contain other rooms of interest.

The building operated as an alehouse by 1745 and was occupied until at least 1815 by the Dodson family, then known as Cound Lane House. The former road from Shrewsbury to Much Wenlock ran between the inn and the River Severn, before being diverted south of the building at some time prior to the construction of the now-disused Severn Valley Railway line in 1861; this explains why the south side of the building, originally the rear, is now the front entrance.