Cleve Court And Cleve Lodge

Cleve Court and Cleve Lodge is a house and service range, now also used as a house, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with the main range built between 1723 and 1748 for John Rucke, a banker from London. The building is constructed of plum brick with red brick dressings and features plain tiled roofs. It is two storeys high and has a moulded plinth, a rendered plat band, and a cornice at the parapet. There are stacks at both the left and right ends. The front has a regular arrangement of four glazing bar sash windows with gauged and keyed segmental heads on each floor, a central Venetian window on the first floor, and double doors made up of three raised and fielded panels on the ground floor, which are approached by a flight of three steps and topped with a moulded cornice on brackets.

On the left side, there are three blank segmental window spaces on each floor. The right side features an irregular lower service wing made of red brick, partly in English Bond, with a plain tiled roof. This wing is two storeys high, hipped with a returned hip on the right, and has an irregular arrangement of five wooden casements and sashes. The interior of the main range includes an early 18th-century stair with a dog-leg plan, turned balusters, and a ramped handrail. The property was occupied for many years by Lord Carson, who died there in 1935.