Roadwater House

Roadwater House, formerly known as Roadwater Inn, is a 17th-century inn, later converted into a private dwelling. It was altered in the early 20th century. The construction is roughcast over a rubble base, with a slate roof and rendered stacks at the right gable end and to the left of the cross passage.

The original plan likely featured three cells and a cross passage, subsequently modified. The two-storey, three-bay facade has a three-light casement window on the left, a 20th-century sash window above the entrance, and a 20th-century window in the end bay to the right. On the ground floor are a three-light ovolo moulded mullion window to the left of the entrance, a modified window to the right, and a small glazed opening in the end bay, likely a stair light. A plank door is centrally positioned, flanked by raking buttresses between the first and second bays to the right. Long blank panels are visible on the ground and first floors of the end bay to the left, and square panels above the entrance window would originally have carried the inn’s name. The interior has not been inspected.

The building was originally a farmhouse, and was later used as an inn in the 19th century, coinciding with the construction of the railway. An illustration from 1880 by Court depicts the building as an inn.