Greenway View Passage House

Greenway View Passage House is a fascinating building, likely dating from the early to mid-18th century, with alterations in the 19th century. It is believed to have originally served as a cider house, designed for the consumption of cider, incorporating an integral 'keel' alley – a skittles area – and a pair of cottages.

The construction is painted stone rubble, with the right-hand gable end clad in slate. It features a slate roof with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles, along with projecting lateral stacks at the rear topped with concrete caps and clay pots. The building has a single-depth rectangular design.

The left-hand section was a three-storey cider house intended for consumption, with a central entrance and a straight staircase ascending between the two main rooms, and another room to the left. To the left of the cider house is the ‘keel’ alley, now used as a store, with a central front entrance and two cottages situated above, accessed by doorways at a higher ground level at the rear.

The east front, facing the river, has six windows, though is not quite symmetrical, with the two central windows being narrower and more closely spaced. The windows are mostly 20th-century 2-light casements with 8 panes per light. However, a circa early 19th-century casement is present to the left of centre on the first floor, and the two right-hand ground floor windows are circa early 19th-century 16-pane sashes with a matching early 19th-century 6-panel door between. A segmented brick arch tops the wider doorway to the left of centre, which has 20th-century plank double doors. All windows are set within segmental brick arch openings with slate sills, and the right-hand doorway has a timber lintel. The rear elevation displays 19th-century casements with glazing bars and four large projecting stone lateral stacks, alongside later outshuts.

Inside the cider house’s ground floor left-hand room, original 19th-century benches with shaped ends are retained, alongside a straight staircase with stick balusters. Most doors are 19th-century parallel or plank doors. However, on the second floor, some original 18th-century fitted 2-panel doors and 18th-century plank partitions remain. Exposed light scantling ceiling beams are present in the cottages, and the 'keel' alley features a stop-chamfered spine beam with run-out stops.