Clerkenleap Farmhouse

House, dating to the late 16th and 17th centuries, with remodelling circa 1840. It is constructed of red brick using both Flemish and English bonds, along with timber framing. The roof is covered with plain clay tiles, featuring gable ends and a gabled front. Brick axial and gable-end stacks are present. The main range, remodelled around 1840, incorporates a 17th-century house with a stair-tower at the rear to the left. Adjoining the back of the stair-tower is an earlier 16th or 17th-century timber-framed wing, which served as the kitchen wing to the 1840 house. A long 17th or 18th-century outbuilding is attached to the back of the right-hand end. The 1840 remodelling is in a Tudor style.

The symmetrical east front has three gables with bargeboards and pendants, and features chamfered brick window openings with 19th-century three-light casement windows with glazing bars. The ground floor windows have transoms, and the front is punctuated by projecting bays to the left and right. The south return has a 19th-century gabled brick porch, and an earlier wing to the left, displaying a five-light casement with a cambered brick arch and a smaller four-light window above. The stair-tower rear elevation displays timber framing in the gable, and a long brick outbuilding wing with timber framing in the gable-end is located to the left.

The interior of the main front range showcases chamfered ceiling beams with cyma stops and 18th-century joinery including panelled doors and a first-floor chimneypiece with an eared architrave; other joinery is from the 19th century. A good 17th-century winder staircase features a closed string, moulded handrail, square newels, and symmetrical turned balusters. The attic reveals timber-framed partitions and some re-used panelling. The timber-framed rear wing contains a kitchen on the ground floor with chamfered ceiling beams with step-stops, and a chamber above with exposed storey-posts, tie-beam, queen-struts, collar, and curved windbraces.

Clerkenleap was historically the seat of the Winslow family; Edward Winslow, who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and became Governor of Plymouth Colony, was among them. The property was also the birthplace of Treadway Russell Nash (1725-1811), a historian and author of "Collections for the History of Worcestershire," and editor of Samuel Butler's "Hudibras."