Peacock House Farmhouse

SD 51 NW EUXTON DAWBERS LANE

4/108 Peacock House Farmhouse 17.4.1967 (Formerly listed as Peacock House) - II

Farmhouse, later C17, now house. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, renovated roof of stone slates with a chimney on the ridge and a chimney at each gable. Three-bay baffle-entry plan (the 1st bay added soon after first build). Two storeys; 2-storey gabled porch to left of 2nd bay has round-headed opening with crude voussoirs, stone side-benches, and a modern glazed inner door protecting a studded board door within; at 1st floor a modern 3-light casement with a rectangular stone head; left of porch a blocked doorway, and one 3-light stone mullion window on each floor; right of porch, four similar windows of slightly irregular size, and between the 2nd and 3rd bays a vertical tear-joint. Left return wall has a 1st floor doorway approached by external steps (the matching parapet modern). Rear: a round-headed window and a 2-light stone mullion window to 1st bay, a 3-light stone mullion window to outshut of 3rd bay (modern 2-storey extension to 2nd bay). Interior: in 2nd bay on inglenook with stone heck and cyma-stopped ovolo-moulded bressummer; similarly moulded beams here and in parlour of 3rd bay; timber-framed partition to 2nd and 3rd bays, at ground floor incorporating Tudor-arched doorway; smokehood at 1st floor; original board doors, some with wooden pull-handles.

Listing NGR: SD5396618385