Rivers Cottage And Rivers Street Mews

RIVERS STREET MEWS 656-1/30/1423 (East side) 07/11/86 Rivers Cottage and Rivers Street Mews

GV II

Cottage and former stables (now garages) surrounding mews courtyard. Late C18/early C19 with C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Painted limestone ashlar and rubblestone walls, Pennant stone paving with late C19 high-fired black tiles to the centre gulley, double Roman tile roofs. EXTERIOR: Mostly two storeys. Rivers Street Cottage to left of entrance to courtyard has one window range. Roof, with two ridges, hipped to left over three-light casement window to first floor and plate glass sash window to ground floor. Right hand range gabled over five-panel door glazed to top. Attached to right return small single storey lean-to below eight/eight-pane sash window, to rear planked door. Garages Nos 9-11 (behind cottage) have three-light casement window to left and two six-pane windows to right clock and inverted semicircular arched bracket to former gas lamp. Below continuous row of C20 garage doors. Garages Nos 3,4 and 5 to right hand side of courtyard each have planked door to loading bay over C20 garage door. Lower range to rear of courtyard has two garages to each side of wide opening with small loading bay above, leading to further covered area with huge timber beams supporting double pitched C20 glazed roof. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Part of the later westward continuation of Rivers Street, running into Rivers Street Mews, consisting of smaller scale houses of lesser status than the rest of the Street. This mews, comprising individually modest structures, is significant as the best surviving Georgian mews remaining in the city. The 1886 Ordnance Survey map describes the group as Catherine Mews. Listing NGR: ST7470765421