Riverside Flats

Riverside Flats is a former warehouse that has been converted into a dwelling and store, dating from the early to mid-17th century. It features a timber-frame construction with stone elements and has a gable-ended roof covered in concrete tiles and corrugated asbestos sheets. The building originally had an open roof and was designed in a 4-bay plan, with the south front and possibly the rear open up to mid-rail level.

In the 18th century, a floor was added, the rear wall was built up with stone, and external stone stairs were constructed at the back. During the 19th century, an outshut was added to the front, and in the 20th century, the roof of this outshut was lowered, and the building was converted into flats. A later timber-framed wing at the west end was demolished in the 20th century. The five eastern bays, likely added soon after the original four bays in the 17th century, were partly destroyed by a fire in 1996 and are not considered of special historic interest.

The exterior is two storeys high with a 2:4 window arrangement on the south front. The ground floor features a projecting stone outshut with five openings and a later flat roof. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows on the right and a 6-pane sash on the left, with a large 3-light window with glazing bars in between. The rear (north) side has external stone stairs at the centre, with the main roof extending over and supported by timber posts to the right, featuring a lateral stack and a gabled dormer above. There are three windows on each floor to the left. The west gable end is faced in stone rubble and concrete blocks, while the east gable end abuts a later 17th-century extension that was partly destroyed in the 1996 fire.

Inside, the building has an inserted floor and later partitions. The original 4-bay roof structure includes jowled posts with braces to tie-beams, queen-struts, and collars with clasped purlins. The common rafters and ridgepiece appear to have been replaced.