The Running Tide

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 FERRY SLIP 673-1/8/123 (South side) 23/10/72 No.1 The Running Tide

GV II

House. Mid/late C19, possibly earlier core. Plastered stone rubble and timber-framing, painted slate-hung timber-framing on the east side; front and back end stacks with plastered brick chimneyshafts and pots; slate roof. PLAN: Entrance front is one room wide and 2 rooms deep. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; one-window range. Plaster front is lightly blocked out as ashlar. Square-headed doorway to right side. 4-panel door under overlight with a geometric pattern of glazing bars recessed with panelled reveals up 3 stone steps. Apart from the doorway there is only a tiny horned 8-pane sash window, second-floor right, on this side. Plain eaves. Roof continuous with those of neighbouring houses with hipped corner. Long riverside front jettied out at first-floor level, and is slate-hung above. Regular 2-window front. Ground floor has 12-pane sashes, the lower sashes replaced (or protected) by boarded shutters. First-floor canted bays with hipped roofs containing late C19 sashes without glazing bars. 12-pane sashes to the second floor and flat-roofed dormer containing a pair of 12-pane sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest. Built on an artificial platform projecting into the river alongside the ferry slip. This house forms part of a group of listed riverside buildings on Ferry Slip, Sunderland Terrace and Lower Street which also line the approach to Bayards Cove. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX8785151076