Riverside House

Riverside House is a late 18th-century town house, altered and extended. The building is divided into two main parts at the front. The left side is three stories high, constructed of ashlar with a slate roof, and features chamfered quoins, a band above the ground floor, a molded cornice above the first floor, a modillion cornice and parapet to the second floor. It has coped verges with convex ramps to the gable ends and ashlar chimneys. A central, two-story angled bay has a parapet and molded string above the ground floor. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars set in raised, flat architraves, with two tripartite windows on the second floor.

The right-hand part is slightly set back, two stories tall and finished with a cornice and parapet. It has chamfered quoins on the right side and a first-floor sill band. A circa 1790s six-panel door with radial glazing to the transom light and brackets supporting an open, pedimented stone hood occupies the left side. A Victorian, circa 1869, two-story extension to the east incorporates a large, bracketed gabled porch. The original entrance has been converted into a three-light window. This extension is in a Gothic style, with lancet windows to the east featuring foliage spandrels and the initials "T.H.C." – its construction cost £505.

A T-plan hipped extension to the south has a reset two-light, circa 15th-century Perpendicular window. A long, two-story rear extension extends from the south block, incorporating some 17th-century features. These include two pairs of hollow-chamfered mullion windows, four windows to the south arranged irregularly, and a coped gable end with a circa 19th-century three-light mullion window on the first floor and a cusped circular vent.

Internally, the bay window rooms are notable for their anthemion friezes, colored marble fireplaces (on the first floor, with a relief panel in the center of the frieze dating to circa 1770), fielded panel doors, and door reveals. The staircase is likely of the 18th century, and the stairhall retains a modillion cornice. Riverside House is considered an excellent Cotswold town house, historically significant due to its prominent setting at the end of the High Street.