A boathouse (or a boat house ) is a building especially designed for the storage of boats , normally smaller craft for sports or leisure use. These are typically located on open water, such as on a river . Often the boats stored are rowing boats . Other boats such as punts or small motor boats may also be stored.
5-761: The Cherwell Boathouse (also "Boat House") is a boathouse and restaurant on the River Cherwell in Oxford , England . It is located down a small lane off the junction between Chadlington Road and Bardwell Road , which itself is off the Banbury Road in North Oxford . The land was leased by the Oxford University Boat Club waterman Tom Tims from St John's College, Oxford for a landing stage for punts in 1901. The boathouse
10-427: The headquarters of a boat club or rowing club and used to store racing shells , in which case it may be known as a shell house . Boat houses may also include a restaurant , bar , or other leisure facilities, 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. In Scandinavia,
15-458: The boathouse is known as a naust , a word deriving from Old Norse naverstað . 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. The boathouse is also seen on riversides or lake sides. 3. Drower, George, `A boat's abode: boathouses of
20-607: The weir at that point to Mesopotamia . Immediately to the north of the Cherwell Boathouse is Wolfson College and to the south is the Dragon School . On the opposite bank to the east are water-meadows . 51°46′11″N 1°15′14″W / 51.7697°N 1.2538°W / 51.7697; -1.2538 This article about an Oxfordshire building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Boathouse A boathouse may be
25-601: Was built in 1904 and was known as Tims's for the first forty years. Punts and small rowing boats can be rented for use on the river. A restaurant and riverside café can be found on the same site. It is very popular with tourists and students in the summer. Upstream, punts can be taken to the Victoria Arms, Marston , a public house . Downstream, punts can be taken past the University Parks and Parson's Pleasure . Rollers must be used to take punts past
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