diff --git a/aeon/clustering/tests/test_base.py b/aeon/clustering/tests/test_base.py
index 362ce21e52..3d968946e4 100644
--- a/aeon/clustering/tests/test_base.py
+++ b/aeon/clustering/tests/test_base.py
@@ -2,8 +2,43 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 import numpy.random
+import pytest
 
 from aeon.clustering.base import BaseClusterer
+from aeon.testing.mock_estimators import MockCluster
+
+
+def test_correct_input():
+    """Tests errors raised with wrong inputs: X and/or y."""
+    dummy = MockCluster()
+
+    # list of strings X
+    X = ["list", "of", "invalid", "test", "strings"]
+    msg1 = r"ERROR passed a list containing <class 'str'>"
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError, match=msg1):
+        dummy.fit(X)
+
+    # dict X
+    X = {
+        0: "invalid",
+        1: "input",
+        2: "dict",
+    }
+    msg2 = r"ERROR passed input of type <class 'dict'>"
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError, match=msg2):
+        dummy.fit(X)
+
+    # 2d list of int X
+    X = [[1, 1, 1], [1, 3, 4]]
+    msg3 = r"lists should either 2D numpy arrays or pd.DataFrames"
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError, match=msg3):
+        dummy.fit(X)
+
+    # correct X
+    X = np.random.randn(5, 5)
+    dummy.fit(X)
+    assert (dummy.predict(X)).shape == (5,)
+    assert (dummy.predict_proba(X)).shape == (5,)
 
 
 class _TestClusterer(BaseClusterer):
diff --git a/aeon/testing/mock_estimators/__init__.py b/aeon/testing/mock_estimators/__init__.py
index 2bd1a8727d..e81543bdf7 100644
--- a/aeon/testing/mock_estimators/__init__.py
+++ b/aeon/testing/mock_estimators/__init__.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     "MockClassifierPredictProba",
     "MockClassifierFullTags",
     "MockClassifierMultiTestParams",
+    "MockCluster",
     "MockDeepClusterer",
     "MockSegmenter",
     "SupervisedMockSegmenter",
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
     MockClassifierMultiTestParams,
     MockClassifierPredictProba,
 )
-from aeon.testing.mock_estimators._mock_clusterers import MockDeepClusterer
+from aeon.testing.mock_estimators._mock_clusterers import MockCluster, MockDeepClusterer
 from aeon.testing.mock_estimators._mock_collection_transformers import (
     MockCollectionTransformer,
 )
diff --git a/aeon/testing/mock_estimators/_mock_clusterers.py b/aeon/testing/mock_estimators/_mock_clusterers.py
index d846e1ba18..ff79c192e7 100644
--- a/aeon/testing/mock_estimators/_mock_clusterers.py
+++ b/aeon/testing/mock_estimators/_mock_clusterers.py
@@ -1,8 +1,32 @@
 import numpy as np
 
+from aeon.clustering.base import BaseClusterer
 from aeon.clustering.deep_learning.base import BaseDeepClusterer
 
 
+class MockCluster(BaseClusterer):
+    """Mock Cluster for testing base class fit/predict."""
+
+    def __init__(self, n_clusters: int = None):
+        super().__init__(n_clusters)
+
+    def _fit(self, X):
+        """Mock fit."""
+        return self
+
+    def _predict(self, X):
+        """Mock predict."""
+        return np.zeros(len(X))
+
+    def _predict_proba(self, X):
+        """Mock predict proba."""
+        y = np.random.rand(len(X))
+        return y
+
+    def _score(self, X, y):
+        return np.random.randn(1)
+
+
 class MockDeepClusterer(BaseDeepClusterer):
     """Mock Deep Clusterer for testing empty base deep class save utilities."""