Holford Charity, Farmhouse

Holford Charity, Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600 that has been altered over time. It features an oak small-frame construction with panels that contain later brickwork, which is painted. The building has a slate roof and is one and a half storeys tall with three windows. On the right side, there is a projecting, jettied cross-gable set on a sandstone plinth. The left wing, which has two gabled dormers, likely includes a former farm building from the 18th century as its extension. Part of the rear wall of the left wing has been rebuilt in sandstone and is painted. The windows are vernacular small pane wood casements, probably from the 19th century. There is a replaced small-pane glazed door and a brick chimney located opposite the ridge.

Inside, the farmhouse has a lobby entrance with an ingle nook behind it. A pair of crucks, aligned with the hood-beam, are connected by an arched brace with sharply-curved angle-struts in the bedroom above. The internal frame is almost completely exposed. The staircase, which has winders, has been replaced with one made of deal, and there are boarded doors throughout.

Historically, John Holford of Congleton granted the "messuage or tenement" in Clutton in trust in 1712, providing an income of £4 per year to William Cooper, the Schoolmaster of Clutton, and subsequently to poor, indigent housekeepers or other residents of Clutton who were deemed worthy of charity.