Clumpcliffe Farmhouse

Clumpcliffe Farmhouse is a lesser gentry house, now a farmhouse, dating to the 17th century or earlier, with alterations from the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, and has a stone slate roof. The building has a rectangular three-unit plan, with a short wing at the junction of the second and third units, a porch at the right-hand gable, and a turret at the rear left-hand corner.

The farmhouse is two storeys and has an attic. A continuous dripcourse runs along the building. It features mullioned and transomed windows on both floors: 14, 16, and 14 lights at ground floor, the first two each with 4 blocked lights, and the centre window divided centrally by a king mullion; at the first floor, there are 10, 12, and 10 lights, plus a former window to the right of the added wing which is now partly blocked. The added wing, possibly formerly a porch, is of two slightly lower storeys, with a dripmould carried round, a segmental-headed tripartite window at ground floor (with stop-chamfered jambs), and a 4-light mullioned window above. An inserted doorway with a pedimented architrave and rectangular overlight with intersecting tracery sits between the first and second ground-floor windows. The right-hand gable has a short, slightly set-back extension of two lower storeys, with a Tudor-arched chamfered doorway in the gable wall, and a 2-light window on each floor to the front. A large chimney stack is incorporated into the front elevation. The left-hand gable wall has a 14-light transomed window at ground floor (outer lights blocked), an inserted casement at the first floor, and a 3-light attic window with a hoodmould. The turret at the rear corner has a blocked doorway on the west side, a 2-light window above, and a similar window on the rear, also blocked. A large chimney is flush with the rear wall.

Inside the third unit, there is a large blocked stone arched fireplace, massive beams on the inner side of the long walls, suggesting former timber-framed construction, and moulded beams, particularly in the central unit. The roof features arch-braced trusses. The interior has otherwise been altered, with partition walls inserted. The group value context indicates a building of significant architectural and historical merit.