River House Including Garage (Former Coach House And Tack Room) Coal House And Stabling

River House is a house with attached garage (formerly a coach house and tack room), a coal house, and stabling, dating from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. The building comprises two parallel ranges.

The main house has a front elevation of three bays, constructed of brick with rendered quoins and a plain parapet concealing a slate roof. Rubbed brick voussoirs frame the windows, and a band sits at the impost level. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars arranged in a pattern of four panes wide and four deep, except for the three-light first-floor sash. Ground-floor windows are set within shallow semi-circular brick arches. Three steps lead to a later rendered rectangular porch with a cornice, featuring a two-panel door with an overlight and semi-circular headed windows to the returns.

Attached to the rear of the house is a coal house and stabling, built in the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond (the right side painted) with a slate roof. The left-hand coal house has a 19th-century casement window, an early 19th-century sliding sash window, two doorcases with cambered head linings and plank doors, and a cambered opening with a plank door and iron hinges for coal delivery. The right-hand stabling, with a hayloft, has inserted 20th-century doors beneath a wooden lintel (two older cambered arches remain above), a 20th-century casement in an original cambered opening, and two further cambered openings. A cogged eaves cornice is present at the rear.

The interior contains a brick floor and a right-hand internal entrance to the hayloft, panelled with large iron hinges. A brick link with a plank ledged and braced door in a wooden surround leads to the garage, formerly the coach house and tack room. This range likely dates to the late 18th century and was altered in the mid-19th century. It is built of red brick with some grey headers, with hipped slate roofs, and features a modillion eaves cornice and a plinth. The right-side elevation has modern garage doors, two cambered-headed doorcases, a cambered-headed sash with four panes and horns, and one blocked window with rubbed brick voussoirs.

The property is thought to have been converted into a Union Workhouse around 1790, a Wesleyan Chapel in 1835, a private school in 1843, and reverted to private residence in the 1850s or 1860s.