Boathouse

[2] Boat houses may also include a restaurant, bar,[3] or other leisure facilities,[1] perhaps for members of an associated club.

They are also sometimes modified to include living quarters for people, or the whole structure may be used as temporary or permanent housing.

These were typically built with stone walls and timber roofs and would be either open to the sea or provided with sturdy doors.

The floors would be a simple continuation of the beach sand or rock, or they might be dug down to permit a boat to sail into the boathouse.

Drower, George, `A boat's abode: boathouses of the River Thames', House & Garden, March 1990, pp54-58