Riverside Cottage Riverside House

Riverside Cottage and Riverside House are a house, later divided into a house and flats. The core of the building dates to the late 18th century, with a refronting in the late 18th century and restoration work in the early 20th century. The construction is of coursed limestone rubble, with a stuccoed front. The roof is gabled and covered in stone slate, with ridge and end stacks; these include stacks of stone finished with diagonally-set brick flues, and one 17th-century moulded ashlar stack to the rear. The building has a four-unit plan with rear wings. It is two storeys high and has a six-window front. The main entrance has an early 19th-century six-panelled door with a lion’s head knocker and overlight, set within a moulded wooden architrave with a cornice. To the right is a similar door with a dolphin knocker and a Tuscan pilaster to a dentilled cornice. The windows are mainly late 18th-century six-pane sashes; two earlier 18th-century windows have thick glazing bars. A two-storey projection on the right side wall has two-light wood-mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights. There are chamfered and moulded wood-mullioned windows of up to five lights. The rear gable has an end stack of stone finished in brick and a three-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned window. A gabled rear bay has ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned and transomed windows, and an early 20th-century carved panel with initials "FW". The rear left wing is of similar materials; the right side wall was rebuilt in the early 20th century in an Arts and Crafts style, with ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows set in three gabled bays. The interior has timber framing around the fireplaces. One room to the right has moulded and quartered beams, a fine late 16th-century moulded stone fireplace with sunk spandrels, and fine mid-18th-century panelling. A room to the rear has quartered chamfered beams and a mid-18th century shell alcove with a carved cherub's head.