3 River Street and nos. 1 and 1a North Parade

3 River Street and nos. 1 and 1a North Parade are a shop and two adjoining cottages located in Portscatho, dating from the early 19th century. The building features painted slatestone rubble walls and a grouted scantle slate roof that adjoins a house to the left and rear, with a hipped corner. Brick chimneys rise over the party walls of the cottages.

The shop has a one-room plan, while the cottages each have a one-room double depth plan, including rear outshuts. The structure is two storeys high. The south-facing shopfront has a central door flanked by matching 20-pane fixed light shop windows from around the mid-19th century, which are reinforced by horizontal iron bars attached to the central glazing bars. The door features 12 panes above a bottom panel and is sheltered by a canopy on wooden brackets. A timber lintel serves as an old fascia, and slate cills are present. The current shop sign is positioned between the doorway and a first-floor window, which is a 12-pane hornless sash set in a cambered brick arched opening. There are possibly Victorian horizontal sliding, louvered shutters. The lower part of the corner wall is splayed to allow for carriage access.

On the east wall, there is a 12-pane window on the ground floor, which is a 20th-century addition in a 20th-century opening. Each cottage has a two-window front with an entrance beneath the left window. The cottages feature 12-pane sashes with cambered brick arches, except for the left doorway, which has a plaster arch under a wooden lintel. The doors are from the 20th century. Inside the shop, there is an open beam ceiling, while the interior of the cottages has not been inspected. Outside the shop front, stone steps lead to each doorway, and original cobbled pavement kerbstones and a cobbled road gutter remain.