Cliff House

Cliff House is a house, later converted to sheltered housing, dating back to around 1850. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a grey slate roof and is built in the Tudor style.

The house is two storeys with a three-window front, and a long, single-storey link of five bays connecting to an adjacent terrace of houses. The symmetrical front features wide stone steps leading to a central double door with a Tudor-arched head and Perpendicular tracery in a tripartite surround, including sidelights and decorative tracery below a carved frieze. A stepped plinth rises over angle clasping buttresses, which flank the door and extend through both storeys, stepping back at the floor and eaves. The window above the door has a two-centred-arched surround with a dripmould and a blocked head above two tall lights with sloping sills. Labelmoulds are present above the three-light ground-floor and two-light first-floor windows in the side bays, all featuring stone mullions, sloping sills and ground-floor transoms. First-floor and eaves strings run along the facade, the latter rising to a gable peak above the door. Angle buttresses rise as turrets, piercing a battlemented parapet. The roof features tall chimney stacks to the left of the gable over the door, behind the front range at the left, and at the rear. Some chimney stacks are single, all topped with tall octagonal yellow pots with plinths and cornices. The left return has a central projecting square bay with clasping buttresses and turrets; the right return has side steps from the rear to a sunken basement area, and a central full-height canted bay with a parapet.

The single-storey link to the left breaks diagonally forward, featuring drip strings over a boarded door and two groups of two-light windows, with a central stepped buttress rising to a stepped panel on a battlemented parapet.

The interior remains uninspected. The house was originally built for the Pease family, owners of the Upleatham Iron Mines.