Middle Cliston

Middle Cliston is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century with 20th-century alterations. It features rendered cob walls and a slate roof, which has a gabled right-hand range and a hipped left-hand wing. The building includes three brick stacks: one axial to the left-hand wing, one at the gable end of the right-hand range, and one set in from the eaves at the rear of the left-hand wing.

The layout is L-shaped, and it appears that all parts were built around the same time based on the roof trusses. The left-hand range consists of two rooms that may have originally had a passage between them. The left room is heated by a rear lateral stack, while the right room has an axial fireplace that might have backed onto the passage. The right-hand range likely started as a single room but has since been divided to create a staircase. There is no thick wall separating the two wings.

The exterior is two storeys tall with an asymmetrical L-shaped front featuring two windows. On the first floor, there is a tall 20th-century transomed window to the right and a smaller diamond leaded pane two-light 20th-century casement to the left, along with a row of pigeon holes. A 20th-century flat-roofed conservatory is situated in the angle of the two wings. The right-hand wing has a small-paned 20th-century four-light casement on the first floor and a two-light window below to the right. The rear of this range features a late 18th-century five-light leaded pane casement window with narrow square section mullions.

Inside, the left-hand room has very heavy, roughly chamfered ceiling beams and a fireplace with a wooden lintel that is chamfered with run-out stops. The right-hand room in this range has a very wide fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel that has straight-cut stops. The roof structure retains one original truss over each range, both of which are face-pegged jointed crucks and are not smoke-blackened.