Cleave House

SAMPFORD COURTENAY STICKLEPATH SX 69 SW 12/215 Cleave House II House. Circa 1835-40. Rendered probably stone rubble walls. Asbestos slate hipped roof with deep eaves. The eaves have a fretted timber canopy with alternating ogee arches and pendants, and a cast iron ogee-moulded gutter with lion masks to the joints. Red brick stacks over the side walls with white clay pots. Plan: double depth rectangular plan. 2 principal front rooms with an entrance hall between which has an open-well staircase at the back. there are 2 smaller heated service rooms at the back. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front. All original C19 windows. Three 12-pane sashes on the first floor with margin panes and 2 tall case- ments on the ground floor also with margin panes and low cills. Central doorway with original C19 moulded 8-panel door, the top panels glazed and a cornice above on large console brackets. The side elevations are blind. The rear elevation is thought to have its original fenestration. Interior: is virtually unaltered and the original joinery such as panelled doors survives intact. The entrance hall has a modillion cornice and an elliptical arch to the stairwell at the back which has an open-well, open-string staircase with a moulded mahogany handrail wreathed over the curtail. The principal rooms have moulded plaster ceiling cornices and possibly retain their chimneypieces.

Listing NGR: SX6396494125