Rivers Cottage And Rivers Street Mews

Rivers Cottage and Rivers Street Mews is a cottage and former stables, now used as garages, that surround a mews courtyard. It dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building features painted limestone ashlar and rubblestone walls, with Pennant stone paving and late 19th century high-fired black tiles in the central gulley, topped with double Roman tile roofs.

The exterior is mostly two storeys high. Rivers Street Cottage, located to the left of the courtyard entrance, has one range of windows. Its roof has two ridges and is hipped to the left, featuring a three-light casement window on the first floor and a plate glass sash window on the ground floor. The right-hand range has a gabled roof over a five-panel door that is glazed at the top. Attached to the right side is a small single-storey lean-to beneath an eight/eight-pane sash window and a rear planked door.

Garages numbered 9-11, located behind the cottage, have a three-light casement window on the left and two six-pane windows on the right, along with a clock and an inverted semicircular arched bracket that once held a gas lamp. Below, there is a continuous row of 20th-century garage doors. Garages numbered 3, 4, and 5 on the right side of the courtyard each have a planked door leading to a loading bay above a 20th-century garage door. The lower range at the back of the courtyard contains two garages on each side of a wide opening with a small loading bay above, leading to a further covered area supported by large timber beams and featuring a double-pitched 20th-century glazed roof.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this area represents the later westward extension of Rivers Street into Rivers Street Mews, which consists of smaller houses of lesser status compared to the rest of the street. This mews, with its individually modest structures, is significant as the best surviving Georgian mews in the city. The 1886 Ordnance Survey map refers to this group as Catherine Mews.