5, Woodhouse Cliff

No. 5 Woodhouse Cliff is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and has a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and four bays, featuring a plinth and quoins. The third bay contains a half-glazed door with an overlight set in a plain stone surround.

On the ground floor, there are paired plate-glass sash windows in plain stone surrounds with slender mullions and lowered sills. The first floor has paired 20th-century casement windows in plain surrounds with flat-faced mullions and a continuous sill band in bays one, two, and four. Above the entrance, there is a plate-glass sash window in a Gibbs surround with a keyblock. The building also features an eaves band, a blocking course, gable copings, and banded ridge stacks at each end and between bays one and two.

Inside, the entrance hall and landing have an elliptical arch, and the staircase includes turned balusters. The roof structure consists of king post trusses with longitudinal braces and trenched purlins, with the rear roof pitch raised to create an outshut. In other areas, ceiling beams are encased in plaster. This house is an important example of a 17th-century farmhouse that was located on the edge of the settlement of Wrangthorn. The land to the east was developed as quarries by the mid-19th century. Previously known as Cliff House, it was home to Thomas S. Hudson, a woollen merchant, in 1872.