Peile House Shotley House Shotley House Cottage

Shotley House, Shotley House Cottage, and Peile House are three separate houses that were originally built as Shotley House around 1860 for J. Priestman. The buildings are constructed from pecked, margined sandstone ashlar and feature a plinth and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof and ashlar and yellow brick chimneys. The design follows an E-plan with a front range and a long F-plan rear range, showcasing an Italianate style.

The front range is two storeys high and has three bays. It features six wide steps leading up to a half-glazed door with side lights, which are flanked by square Tuscan columns and pilasters. This entrance is topped with overlights and an entablature that has a prominent cornice. The principal lights have etched glass. Above the entrance, there is a sill band with a 4-pane sash in a plain stone surround, which is recessed under a corbel table that links the outer bays. The quoined outer bays have similar sashes in two-storey canted bays. There is a continuous first-floor-level band and a top entablature supported by paired curved stone brackets beneath wide eaves. The low-pitched hipped roof has shallow hips over the canted bays and features two cruciform brick chimneys on ashlar plinths, along with rear corniced ashlar chimneys on the other ranges.

The left return includes two bays of the front range, with the right bay featuring a square projecting bay and a fern-house grotto covering the left bay, although the conservatory has been removed. There is also a plainer two-storey, set-back bay with left quoins and a plain two-storey, four-bay rear wing that is set back. The right return has a projecting central wing, which is now Shotley House Cottage, and a courtyard behind that contains two ranges of servants' quarters and coach houses, now known as Peile House. The rear range has a pebble-dashed extended upper storey.

Inside Shotley House, there is an imperial stair in the central hall adorned with wreaths and curtails. The interior features six-panel doors in architraves throughout, moulded panelled internal shutters, some original marble chimneypieces, and rich stucco decoration on the ceiling roses and cornices in a late 18th-century style.