Riverside

Riverside is a house incorporating a former warehouse, likely dating from the 18th century with alterations in the mid to late 19th century and the 20th century. It is constructed of local limestone and slate rubble, with a rendered west end wall. The roof is thatched with slate coping to the gable ends. A lateral stack is located at the front, featuring a 20th-century brick shaft on a short brick shaft to the right gable end stack.

The building’s original plan is uncertain. It may have begun as a warehouse in the 18th century, with the western two-thirds converted into a house in the mid to late 19th century. Alternatively, the right hand two-thirds may have been a house from the beginning, with an integral warehouse at the left hand end. The warehouse includes a cartway on the ground floor and two storeys above, with loading doors on the left hand gable end facing the quay on the creek. The house section is two rooms wide, with an entrance lobby and straight stairs between; the left hand room extends the full depth, while the right hand room is two rooms deep. In the 20th century, the house accommodation was accessed through the cartway and warehouse on the left.

The north front has a roughly asymmetrical three-window arrangement towards the right. The first floor has two two-light casements and one three-light casement. The ground floor has a three-light casement and a 20th-century single light. The windows are largely late 19th-century style with horizontal glazing bars and timber lintels, aside from the later insertions. A doorway to the right of centre has a late 19th-century panelled door and a 20th-century wooden lattice porch. To the left, the former warehouse features a blocked segmental stone arch cartway, with a 20th-century window inserted. The rear south elevation presents three windows, symmetrically arranged, with late 19th-century two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars and wooden lintels. A blocked doorway is located to the left of centre, and a former cartway to the right is now filled with a 20th-century glazed door and window, covered by a slated canopy. The east end has former loading doors on all three storeys; the ground floor doorway is blocked, and the first and second floor doorways have windows inserted.

The interior retains some mid to late 19th-century joinery, but was only partly inspected.