Cliff House

Cliff House is a house, originally built around 1750 and altered in the 19th century and later. It was initially two attached double-depth houses. In the 19th century, they were joined together, a canted bay was added to the front right, and a wide stair hall was created to the left, at the rear of the entrance hall.

The house is constructed of rubble, with a rendered finish and a slate-hung bay on the first and second floors to the right, and a slate-hung end bay. The roof is slate, with a gable-end stack to the right. It is three storeys high. The two bays to the left have a 4-panelled door with an overlight and 4-pane sash windows to the right and left. There is a wrought iron verandah balcony on piers above. At the first floor, there is a large 4-pane sash window to the left and a smaller 4-pane sash to the right. The second floor has two small 4-pane sashes and a 2-light hipped dormer at attic level. The bay to the right is canted through three storeys, featuring three 4-pane sashes at ground, first, and second floors, with a wooden eaves cornice. The end bay to the right has a wooden band course at ground floor level.

Inside, the entrance hall has a 6-panelled door to a room to the left, dating back to the 18th century. This room has dado panelling and a 19th-century chimney-piece with 18th-century bow-fronted cupboards to the right and left. The cupboards have lower panelled doors and upper glazed doors with splayed and looped glazing bars, a Vitruvian scroll frieze, and shaped shelves; the room also has a moulded plaster cornice that bows around the heads of the cupboards. A room at the rear on the left is a kitchen. The front room on the right has a plaster ceiling rose, a moulded cornice, and 18th-century cupboards with shaped shelves remaining to the right and left of a 20th-century fireplace. A room at the rear on the right has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries; a dog-leg staircase is located to the rear of the entrance hall, with stick balusters and a scrolled string. The rest of the interior was not inspected, but may retain other 18th and 19th century features.