Clifton House Hotel

Clifton House Hotel is a three-storey building with a three-window front, constructed from rubble masonry. It features a gently pitched quarry slate roof with deep plastered eaves, exposed purlins, and bargeboards, as well as stone stacks and water tabling. The second-floor windows have shallow upper sashes with 12 panes, set under the eaves. The first floor has 16-pane sash windows with stone lintels, and similar, larger sashes are present on the ground floor.

The central doorway is topped by a lattice-glazed rectangular fanlight over a six-panel grooved door. Inside, there is a later 19th-century four-panel inner door with deep upper glazed panels and a semicircular slate doorsill. A large later 19th-century semicircular open porch on chamfered posts leads to modern steps down to a cut basement doorway on the left. The original doorway is blocked to the immediate left of the porch, which features a semicircular stone voussoir arch.

On the right end elevation, there is a 12-pane sash window with a stone lintel, with a blocked window above and a blocked door to the left. Below, a blocked stone voussoir arch marks a basement window. The rear elevation has an early 18th-century hipped staircase bay at the center, with lateral stacks on either side. The left stack has a slated gablet and a tall square stack with water tabling, while a massive square stack on the right rises through later additions. The service wing, which is four storeys high, adjoins at right angles and is made of rubble masonry with a modern slate roof.

Inside, the ground floor rooms retain reeded architraves around doors and windows, panelled shutters, and six-panel doors. A depressed arched buffet recess is flanked by reeded door architraves in the former dining room, which also features reeded cornices and a hall arch on reeded pilasters. The early 18th-century staircase has four flights in a dog-leg configuration, with cannon barrel balusters on the first two flights and "bobbin" moulding on the second two flights. The staircase has square newels and a plain handrail that sweeps up to half landings with moulded tread ends.

The basement, which has been converted into a restaurant, retains a broad former kitchen with a fireplace on the left side of the rear wall, featuring a chamfered timber bressumer and transverse ceiling beams.