Peacock Hall

Peacock Hall, now divided into three dwellings, dates to 1626. The building is constructed of stone and brick, with a stone slate roof. It has a U-shaped plan, with projecting wings and a rear extension to the central bay. The house is two storeys high and largely symmetrical, although the doorway and chimney stack are off-centre. The front façade features flanking gabled crosswings set on a stone plinth of three courses of large rectangular stone blocks, with similarly large, but unequal, stone quoins. Very long brick hoodmoulds run across both floors, and the windows beneath have been altered. The recessed central two bays also have hoodmoulds and windows on each floor, with a doorway on the right side, featuring large stone jambs and a lintel with the datestone "I:S 1626" above. A prominent brick chimney stack, with a band of five courses of brick, sits in line with the doorway. The return wall of the left wing has a very prominent external chimney stack with large stone quoins, a ground-floor door, and a first-floor hoodmould (without a window). The rear wall of this wing contains a blocked five-light window with diamond section wooden mullions, and a blocked attic window with chamfered brick jambs, both with hoodmoulds. Number 378 has a two-storey rear extension with stone quoins, a ground-floor brick hoodmould, a blocked attic window with hoodmould, and a two-light brick mullioned window with leaded lights in the side wall. The interior features pairs of quarter-round moulded bridging beams on both floors of each section, large chimney breast bressummers in numbers 376 and 378 with substantial brick smoke hoods above, and a roof with trusses having large principals, raking struts, and very large trenched purlins.