Cleverdon House And Walls Enclosing Garden On South Front With Gatepiers

Cleverdon House is a building likely constructed to accommodate a doctor and his surgery, along with garden walls featuring iron railings and gatepiers. The house dates to around 1830 and was refenestrated in the late 19th century. It has a double pile plan with single-storey lean-to projections symmetrically placed on the sides. The exterior is roughcast over rubble, with cob in the rear walls, a slate roof, and a brick stack on the right gable end. The house is two storeys high with three bays, featuring sash windows with single vertical glazing bars, a central Doric porch, panelled reveals, a six-panel door with four inserted lights, original door furniture, and a semicircular fanlight. The right return has a 12-pane sash window in the gable end.

On the rear elevation, there are three bays with a 12-pane sash window at the centre of the first floor, and 16-pane sash windows on the right and on both the left and right of the ground floor. Inside, the entrance hall has a moulded plaster cornice, and there is a dogleg staircase with cast and wrought iron balusters, a swept back design with a mahogany handrail that continues as a gallery on the first-floor landing. The room to the right features a decorative plaster cornice with flowers and fruit, and a fireplace from the 1930s. The left room has a plain moulded cornice, a 20th-century bolection moulded fireplace, and segmental headed recesses flanking the fireplaces in both rooms. An original panelled door with a fanlight provides access on the right return, and there is a room at the rear with a plaster ceiling rose. This area served as the patient’s entrance to the doctor’s surgery, with an adjoining dispensary in a single-storey wing. The house was occupied by the local doctor from the early to mid-19th century until the late 20th century.

The garden walls are made of random rubble with cast iron railings, dating to the mid-19th century, and enclose the garden on the south front of the house. There are six standards with pineapple finials and the remains of a single gate that is no longer in use, facing the road. The gatepiers are made of random rubble with cemented caps featuring incised decoration, square in plan, and they front the drive between the garden in front of the house and the walled garden to the east.