Peel House, With Outbuilding

This is a former vicarage, dating to the 18th century, with a tower probably from the 15th century. It is likely built on the foundations of earlier medieval fabric, and was remodelled in the 18th century. It was altered and extended in 1863 by F.R. Wilson for Rev. J.B. Roberts, with further alterations around 1970. The building is constructed of large squared stone, with rubble and snecked stone for rear wings, and cut dressings. The roofs are covered in Welsh slate, except for a low-pitched lead roof to the tower.

The south elevation is divided into three sections. The right-hand end features a three-storey tower. It has a rough plinth and a wall that batters upwards to the second floor. A large, chamfered loop window is on the ground floor, a 19th-century window of two pointed lights is on the first floor, and traces of a blocked window are to its left. A chamfered set-back above marks the top of the medieval masonry. The second-floor window has two trefoil-headed lights, and there is an embattled parapet. A taller, corbelled-out turret is located at the left corner. Adjoining the tower is a two-storey, three-bay section, which includes a shallow porch on the right with a boarded door under a chamfered pointed arch, topped by a pent roof with a small gable, a shield monogram, and a cross finial. Plain sash windows are present, with the central one set within a former chamfered doorway. A stone with the JBR monogram is above the left ground-floor window. A single-storey section to the left is divided into two parts; the right part was reduced to one storey around 1970, and has a four-pane sash window and a small boarded window. The left outbuilding has boarded double doors under a timber lintel, and a narrower similar door to the left under a raking loft dormer. A coped gable is at the left end, and a small stepped stack is on the ridge.

The return side facing the churchyard has a first-floor window of two trefoil-headed lights above a panel containing a Latin inscription referencing Rev. Roberts and F.R. Wilson, and a rhyme taken from Melrose Abbey. A square-headed window is on the second floor. A two-storey, one-bay rear wing on the right has three-light windows under a dormer gable.

The rear elevation contains various casement windows in older openings. The gable end of the rear wing has windows of two trefoil-headed lights.

The tower's basement has a chamfered four-centred doorway and a slightly-pointed barrel vault; the splayed loop window on the north now opens into a wing. Wall lockers are in the end walls. Remains of a newel stair or well shaft are in a cupboard in the north-west corner of the tower. Walls approximately 0.7 metres thick define the former hall block, which was enlarged to the rear in the 18th century. Interior features include panelled doors and shutters with beaded mouldings. A first-floor room in the tower has an 18th-century moulded stone fireplace with a later wrought-iron and tiled grate, flanked by doorways with arched panels above, and a cornice. A 19th-century staircase has stick balusters, a moulded ramped handrail, and moulded newels.