Cleave Farmhouse

Cleave Farmhouse is a mid-17th century farmhouse constructed from plastered cob on rubble footings, featuring rubble stacks—one with an original chimney and the other topped with 20th-century brick. The slate roof was formerly thatched. The house has a two-room plan, facing southeast, with a parlour at the northeast end that has a slightly projecting rear lateral stack. The southwest end contains a kitchen-service room with a projecting front lateral stack.

The building is two storeys high and has a three-window front featuring early 20th-century casements with glazing bars, arranged around a contemporary door. This arrangement is set to the right of the kitchen/service stack, which includes a slate-roofed oven projection and its original chimney shaft. The roof is hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left.

Inside, the interior is largely original. The parlour at the right end features an ogee-moulded and scroll-stopped crossbeam along with exposed scratch-moulded beams. The parlour fireplace, which had an oak lintel removed after a fire around 1950, is kept in a nearby barn; it features ovolo moulding with scroll stops and bears a secondary inscription with the initials IP (with the P reversed) and the date 1698. The kitchen/service room has a plain-chamfered axial beam, and its fireplace has been rebuilt. The roof was not inspected.