Cleaver House is a historic house and farm located to the west of Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware, about one mile east of US 13 and Biddles Corner. The house was built about 1816, and is a two-story, seven-bay, gable-roofed farm dwelling built in three different sections. The three bay, center brick section is the oldest. Attached to the east is a two bay brick section, making it a five bay center hall dwelling, and to the west a -story frame kitchen wing. The house measures 61 feet long by 17 feet wide. Also on the property are a contributing frame barn with attached carriage shed and milk house. and It was listed on the

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in 1985. Joseph Cleaver, a relative of the residents and possible owner of the farm, was a

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in Port Penn. His residence there, also known as the Cleaver House, is a contributing property in the Port Penn Historic District. and

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