8, Clifton

No. 8 Clifton is a house built between 1782 and 1784, with a rear wing added around 1830. It was constructed for Joseph Goodlad of Harrogate. The building is made of brick in Flemish bond, featuring painted stone dressings and a hipped slate roof.

The house has three storeys above cellars and consists of four bays. The facade includes a plinth with cellar openings, sill bands on the ground and first floors, a storey band above the ground-floor windows, and a dentilled gutter cornice. The windows are glazing bar sashes with rubbed brick flat arches. The doorway features four small glazed lights above an architrave and is topped with a cornice hood supported by console brackets. The door itself has six panels, with the upper two being glazed. There are chimneys on both the left and right sides.

At the rear, the extension includes a two-storey bay to the right of a three-storey full-height segmental bow with a hipped roof. The two-storey bay has a glazed garden door set in a pilastered doorcase on the ground floor, with a round-headed window above. The bow features a tall 20-pane sash window on the ground floor, a similar but shorter window on the first floor, and a 16-pane sash window on the second floor.

The interior has not been inspected, but records from the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England indicate that it contains a staircase with original turned balusters and fireplaces in the front rooms with enriched surrounds.