Clifton Farmhouse

Clifton Farmhouse, now a house, was probably built in the early 18th century, with a rear outshut added in the later 18th and 19th centuries. Further alterations have occurred since. The farmhouse is constructed of slatestone and granite rubble, with granite long and short quoins. It has a slurried scantle slate roof with mostly hand-made crested ridge tiles; gable ends have brick shafts.

The original plan features a wide passage with a rear staircase to the left, a large kitchen to the right, and a smaller parlour to the left. The rear outshut provides access through the kitchen to a later 18th-century kitchen at the rear right, and two unheated dairies located centrally and to the rear left.

The two-storey front elevation is nearly symmetrical, with four windows. The first floor has two central two-light, six-pane casements, and a three-light, six-pane casement on either side, all with L hinges. The ground floor mirrors this arrangement with three-light, eight-pane casements on each side, featuring L hinges, segmental hoods on brackets, and a two-light, eight-pane casement with L hinges to the right of the front door. The left end has a blind wall, while the later rear outshut has a blocked door with a 20th-century window inserted. The right end features an external stack and a single-storey rubble lean-to with a corrugated iron roof, including two doors and a rear ventilation slit – a straight joint in the masonry marks where this addition was made after the main rear outshut. The single-storey rear outshut extends across the whole rear, with a stack serving the room to the left, and forming a catslide scantle slate roof. From the left, the rear has a three-light 20th-century casement, a stable door, an eight-pane light under a timber lintel, a four-pane light with iron stanchions to the central dairy, a stable door with a timber lintel, and two two-light casements.

Inside, the entrance passage has a slate floor, and the straight staircase has stick balusters. A four-panelled door leads to the parlour, which includes a rebuilt end fireplace, 19th-century panelled cupboards, and panelled shutters. The kitchen has a slate floor and an end fireplace with a wide basket arch featuring stone voussoirs and a keystone; an oven is located to the rear left, and a panelled cupboard is on the right. The back kitchen has a 19th-century mantel and a cloam oven, with hooks in the ceiling, and a service staircase along the party wall to the front room. The central dairy has a slate floor and 19th-century shelves on curved brackets. Two further small unheated rooms are situated to the rear left, both with slate floors, one featuring slate shelves. On the first floor, a central unheated room is present, and the principal rooms to the right and left, accessed by a rear corridor, each have fireplaces with 19th-century cast iron grates.