Watch House, Retaining Walls To The River And Garage

ST 57 NW EASTON-IN-GORDANO WATCH HOUSE ROAD (north end)

2/72 Watch House, Retaining Walls to the River and Garage G.V. II

Customs house, now a private house, retaining walls to the river and former boathouse, now a garage. Dated 1850. Rubble; hipped slate roof; coursed rubble stacks. Single storey on battered, dressed ashlar plinth to riverside. The north-east (riverside) elevation has 1:3:1 bays, the outer ones are advanced as wings under hipped roofs and with quoins; glazing bar sash windows in dressed stone surrounds with cills on brackets; outer bays have tripartite windows. The battered plinth returns for approximately 5 yards to the south-east as a retaining wall for the garden. The south-west (land) elevation is L-plan: 3 bays, glazing bar sash windows in dressed stone surrounds with cills on brackets. Panelled door in projecting porch in re-entrant angle; further panelled door (formerly to the customs office) in projecting porch on north-west gable. One yard to the south-east is the former boathouse, now a garage; rubble with dressed ashlar quoins and voussoirs, hipped slate roof; segmental headed doorway at north-west end.

Listing NGR: ST5263376082