Riversdale House — STRAGHAN or CORNASORE

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1930, having central gabled return and lean-to extension to rear (north) elevation, and porch to front elevation. Hipped slate roof, pitched to return, with cast-iron rainwater goods, moulded brick eaves supports and red brick eaves course. Clay ridge tiles and polychrome-brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron rectangular-plan water tank to north-east of roof. Decorative timber bargeboards to front of porch. Red brick wall to front laid in English garden wall bond, yellow-brick string course over ground floor and yellow-brick quoins. Harl-rendered walls to rear, east and west elevations. Polychrome-brick block-and-start quoins to side elevations, painted to rear, painted render plinth course, painted channelled quoins to rear return. Gauged polychrome-brick square-headed window openings to front, alternating polychrome-brick surrounds, tooled stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed window openings to side and rear elevations with render reveals, painted render sills, and replacement uPVC and timber-frame windows. Square-headed door opening to east side of porch having painted lintel, alternating polychrome-brick surrounds and replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening to west of return with render reveal and replacement glazed timber door. Square-headed door opening to return with render reveal and timber battened door. Harl-rendered boundary wall terminating in pair of square-plan polychrome-brick piers having render capping, flanking double-leaf steel vehicular gate, to south-east of house.