Riverview Cottage

Riverview Cottage is a house located in East Worlington, dating from the early 17th century, although it may have been a remodelling of an earlier structure. The building is constructed of cob and rubble, with a colourwashed finish and a gabled straw-thatched roof. It features two stacks: one brick stack at the upper end and a rendered off-ridge hall stack.

The plan consists of a three-room layout with a through-passage. The lower end, which was used as an outbuilding for a time, was reincorporated into the house around 1980, at which point the through-passage was blocked. The hall has an axial stack that backs onto the former passage, and the inner room includes a gable-end fireplace.

The exterior is single storey with an attic and has a symmetrical arrangement of windows, featuring two pairs of small casements with close-set glazing bars. Three of these windows are from the 19th century, while the others were replaced in a matching style in the 20th century. There are two inserted door openings, one leading into the inner room and another at the lower end, both fitted with 20th-century doors. The roadside elevation maintains a consistent style with small 19th-century casements and exposed wooden lintels.

Inside, the central hall features a lateral chamfered stepped-stopped ceiling beam and a fireplace with a chamfered beam and a 19th-century oven. The inner room has a fireplace with a cambered chamfered lintel. The roof contains two old trusses, one above the hall and one over the low side of the through-passage. The truss over the hall has a notched lap-jointed collar and a morticed apex, while the truss over the passage has mortices for a collar, which is now missing. The purlins rest on the backs of the principals, and there is an 18th-century roof over the lower end.