Picnic House

Picnic House is a three-storey building constructed in 1726 as part of the Avon Navigation Scheme. The exterior is rendered with a pantile roof featuring brick end chimneys and modern coped verges. It has five windows with glazing bar sashes set in flush frames, although the ground floor windows have been altered with cambered heads. There are plain weathered strings above the first and ground floors, with the latter raised over the window heads. The central entrance features a half-glazed door with a transom light and a gabled lattice porch. At the rear, there is a stair turret. Flanking the doorway are two obscured freestone tablets inscribed with "CWS" and "1726". Inside, there is some residual panelling in the ground floor rooms and in the cupboard beneath the stairs. The staircase has splat balusters, which have been replaced on the ground and first floors.