Cloverhill

Detached Arts-and-Crafts three-bay two-storey former estate farm manager's house, built c.1890, incorporating fabric of earlier gate lodge, having carved timber entrance canopy, gabled single storey side wing, and lean-to to rear with recent extension. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof, with catslide roof extending over lean-to, decorative clay ridge tiles, lead-roll to hips. Pitched oversailing roofs to lucarnes with decorative fretwork bargeboards. Decorative gable panels to lucarnes, wing, porch and lean-to. Paired brick chimneystacks flanking centre bay, cast-iron rainwater goods supported on moulded brick corbels. Brick walls in stretcher bond having sandstone band at upper floor sill level, earlier brick in Flemish bond to canted west end. Rubble stone walls with brick quoins to east wing. Half-timbered jettied lucarnes to upper floor, having four-pane overlight with spun glass over single pane casement having decorative spandrel. Round-headed window openings in canted end set in recessed blind arches. Sandstone lintels to other ground floor windows having casement windows with four-pane ventilation lights. Two-over-two sash window to wing. Recent windows to rear. Elaborate turned timber posts to entrance porch, having six-panelled original door with multiple-pane overlight.

Originally built as a gate lodge, set opposite the eastern entrance to Cloverhill Demesne, the building later enlarged and remodelled as a farm manager’s house. It retains a semi-octagonal end, characteristic of Georgian era gate lodges, which formerly faced the entrance gates. It is a highly picturesque building with many Arts-and-Crafts features of high architectural quality. Together with the ruin of Cloverhill House, other gate lodges, entrance screen, and the estate village of Cloverhill, the house forms part of a demesne related group that is a significant part of the county's architectural and social heritage.