Cleave House

Cleave House is a house built around 1835-1840, featuring rendered walls that are likely made of stone rubble. It has an asbestos slate hipped roof with deep eaves, which are adorned with a fretted timber canopy that includes alternating ogee arches and pendants. The gutter is made of cast iron and has ogee moulding with lion masks at the joints. The house has red brick stacks on the side walls topped with white clay pots.

The layout is a double depth rectangular plan, consisting of two main front rooms with an entrance hall in between, which includes an open-well staircase at the back. There are also two smaller heated service rooms at the rear. The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window front, featuring all original 19th-century windows. The first floor has three 12-pane sash windows with margin panes, while the ground floor has two tall casements, also with margin panes and low cills. The central doorway boasts an original 19th-century moulded eight-panel door, with the top panels being glazed and a cornice above supported by large console brackets. The side elevations are blind, and the rear elevation is believed to retain its original window arrangement.

Inside, the house is virtually unaltered, with original joinery such as panelled doors still intact. The entrance hall features a modillion cornice and an elliptical arch leading to the stairwell, which has an open-well, open-string staircase with a moulded mahogany handrail that is wreathed over the curtail. The principal rooms have moulded plaster ceiling cornices and may still have their original chimneypieces.