Water Side House

Water Side House is a house, probably dating from around 1650-60, with an extension built in 1675. It is constructed of roughcast stone with a slate roof. The building is three storeys high, with five bays, and includes a single-storey, single-bay former outbuilding to the left. Most windows are sash windows with single glazing bars and horns. However, the second bay on the ground floor has vertical glazing bars, the third bay has a window with small-paned fixed glazing, and the second floor has two-light windows. The former outbuilding has a three-light wooden mullioned window with chamfered interior detail. The entrance to the third bay has a two-panel door, while the fourth bay has a wide-boarded door with an old lock plate. Gable-end stacks are present on the three-storey portion, with the stack on the left having a truncated projecting part. The rear of the house features a gabled wing with a lean-to stair wing to the left return. The first bay on the rear has a 20th-century casement window to the ground floor; the stair wing has two windows with fixed glazing. The left return of the wing has a ground-floor three-light wooden chamfered-mullioned window with a slated lintel, while the floors above have casement windows, including one on the second floor with an iron opening light. The right return of the wing has two wooden chamfered-mullioned windows of three lights, the one on the right being a 20th-century replacement. The first floor has a similar window of four lights, with three intermediate bars remaining, glazing outwards. A gable-end stack is also present. The former outshut has a sash window with glazing bars and horns, and a three-light wooden flat-mullioned window to the right. The left return has a three-light wooden mullioned window, chamfered inside, an entrance with a wide-boarded door to the left, and a first-floor wide-boarded studded loading door. The right return is blind.

Inside, the house features ovolo moulded beams. One fireplace has a corbelled lintel, a moulded opening, and a spice cupboard with a door frame to the left. There are two doors with two fielded panels and dado rails, set within bolection architraves. A two-light wooden chamfered-mullioned window with intermediate bars and wooden shutters is found in what was formerly the rear wall - a notably rare feature. The wing contains a fireplace with a plaster overmantel, an oak trail border, the date 1675, and flanking initials: "RTI" and "CRA," identifying Robert and Isobel Taylor and Charles and Agnes Robinson (daughter to the Taylors). The dog-leg stair has turned balusters, square newels, and a moulded handrail. On the first floor, fielded panelled partitions with dado rails, and doors matching those downstairs are present, with the end rooms featuring bolection-moulded panelling.