The Running Tide

The Running Tide is a house located in Dartmouth, dating from the mid to late 19th century, with the possibility of an earlier core. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble and timber-framing, with painted slate-hung timber-framing on the east side. The house features front and back end stacks with plastered brick chimney shafts and pots, topped by a slate roof.

The entrance front is one room wide and two rooms deep, standing three storeys tall with an attic and a one-window range. The plaster front is lightly treated to resemble ashlar. There is a square-headed doorway on the right side, which has a four-panel door beneath an overlight with a geometric pattern of glazing bars, accessed by three stone steps. Aside from the doorway, there is a small horned eight-pane sash window on the second floor to the right. The eaves are plain, and the roof is continuous with those of neighbouring houses, featuring a hipped corner.

The long riverside front jetties out at the first-floor level and is slate-hung above. This side has a regular two-window front, with the ground floor displaying twelve-pane sashes, the lower sashes of which have been replaced or protected by boarded shutters. The first floor features canted bays with hipped roofs containing late 19th-century sashes without glazing bars. The second floor has twelve-pane sashes, and there is a flat-roofed dormer that contains a pair of twelve-pane sashes.

The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest. The house is built on an artificial platform that extends into the river alongside the ferry slip. It is part of a group of listed riverside buildings on Ferry Slip, Sunderland Terrace, and Lower Street, which also line the approach to Bayards Cove, contributing to its group value.