Number 4 Riverside Cottages And Number 5 ( Riverside Cottage)

A pair of attached cottages, dating to the 18th or early 19th century. The cottages are timber framed with weatherboard cladding and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. There is an internal stack on the front pitch of the roof. Lean-to extensions to the rear are slate-covered on number 5. The cottages are two storeys high, with attic space. Number 4 has a 20th-century casement window with external plain shutters on each floor, and a 20th-century half-glazed door. Number 5 has a late 19th-century sash window with 16 lights on the ground floor, a late 19th-century casement window with 4 lights on the first floor, and a plain door with a simple fluted jamb and a plain canopy. A straight joint running through the building and a slight undulation in the roof suggest the cottages were built at different times. The cottages, along with numbers 1 and 3 (which are not listed), are enclosed by an earth sea wall faced with slabs. A tithe award from 1840 indicates there were originally two tenements and an ancillary building to the rear, which has since been demolished. An Ordnance Survey map from 1873 shows the block was expanded to three cottages, but reduced to two again by 1896.