Clarehall Farmhouse

Clarehall Farmhouse is a farmhouse originally built with a substantial timber frame and a three-unit plan, which was rebuilt and extended in the late 18th century. An early 19th-century addition includes a staircase hall at the rear. The exterior features soft red local brick that partly covers the earlier building in the lower range to the right. It has gauged brick window arches and a slate roof with end stacks, presenting a symmetrical façade of five bays. The building is two storeys high, with five twelve-paned hung sash windows on the first floor and four similar windows on the ground floor. The entrance boasts a six-panelled mahogany door with a patterned rectangular fanlight, framed by wooden architraves and a projecting cornice. Flanking the property are shaped garden walls topped with stone copings. Inside, the farmhouse retains the exposed timber frame of the original structure, a 17th-century inglenook hearth with a sealed baking oven, and a well-crafted open string staircase featuring a raking mahogany handrail.