Including Cranley Cottage And Stable Courtyard, Cleghorn, Cranley House

This is a mid-19th century country house, with additions and alterations made around 1900, and further decorative work completed circa 1928 by Robert Thompson of Yorkshire. The house is large, two stories tall with an attic, and has an irregular plan with multiple gables. It is set within its own parkland grounds and includes a substantial stable wing to the west, and an integral section known as Cranley Cottage. The exterior is harled with sandstone quoins and window surrounds featuring projecting cills. The roof is grey slated with corniced stacks, some topped with octagonal cans. There are gabled dormers and decorative bargeboards to the main gables. Most windows are tripartite mullioned plate glass, set in timber sash and case frames, with some canted bays on the ground floor; single windows are found at the rear and in the later additions. A tripartite stone entrance porch, with engaged pilasters, faces south.

The interior, inspected in 2013, contains a good decorative scheme throughout, with detailing consistent with both the mid-19th century original and the circa 1900 extensions. Notable features include a wide square open stair hall with a decorative timber balustrade and cornicing, and a variety of original fireplaces, including cast-iron and tiled inserts. Plain timber detailing is present in the rear service quarters. In 1928, Robert Thompson added a finely panelled dining room (used as a second dining room) and other carved details to the hall. The dining room is characterised by adzed-carved timber panelling with vertically framed oak, an inverted dentilled cornice, and an integral mantelpiece featuring a dated crest, fitted seat, and hearth curb. A carved inscription over the door to the second dining room, reading 'meat feeds, claith cleads, but manners mak the man' taken from Robert Burns, and decorative hinges are also present. The north-west section of the house has suffered significant loss of interior fabric – the first floor has been removed – and is now closed off, functioning as Cranley Cottage.

The roughly square-plan stable block courtyard features a double-pitch range adjoining the house to the east. The principal south elevation has a two-story central bay and a gabled segmental arched pend with a circular window at its apex.