Clough House Farmhouse

Clough House Farmhouse is a farmhouse built as a ferme ornee, probably around 1840, which has been altered and is now a house. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with scored render, some ashlar, all of which is whitewashed, and features a stone slate roof with two chimneys on the ridge and one on the left side. The long five-bay facade is flanked by gabled crosswings of slightly unequal width. The building is two storeys high and symmetrical, displaying details in the Jacobean style.

The original house, located in the three middle bays, was flanked by workshops, while the wings were barns. At the center, there is a narrow, slightly projecting two-storey porch made of ashlar, which features a tall chamfered doorway with a hoodmould, a tall two-light mullioned window with a hoodmould on the first floor, a carved shield above this window, and a steeply pitched gable with coping that is scrolled at the eaves and base of a former finial at the apex. Each side of the porch has two windows on each floor, all of which are three-light with mullions and hoodmoulds, and the ground floor windows have transoms.

The wings originally had one arched blind window on each floor and a gable finial, but they have been altered in the 20th century to have matching four-light fenestration and now lack finials. The rear of the building is of less interest, but the east wing is longer and features a stair turret with a full-height window at the center, and to the right of this is a three-bay two-storey outshut with five square windows that have glazing bars, which may have been part of an earlier house. The building is prominently situated on a hillside facing Turton Tower, located about half a mile to the southeast, from which it was likely designed to be an eye-catcher. The detailing of Clough House Farmhouse matches that of No. 97 High Street, Chapeltown.