Above the front door is a stone plaque, which was found broken inside the house at its restoration, having been removed in 1971 after the house's abandonment. During the restoration, it was restored, painted, and reinstated in its original position.Black 1972, pp. 13, 56. The plaque depicts William Clifton's crest along with the initials C W M (for Clifton, William, Mary) and the date 1734, the year in which the Cliftons took possession of the lands of Hermits and Termits. The blazon of Clifton's crest is: "Out of a ducal coronet gules a demi-peacock per pale argent and sable, the wings expanded, counterchanged". In the plaque, however, the coronet is that of a baron rather than a duke.
