The Peacock Inn

The Peacock Inn is a 16th-century timber-framed building that stands on the site of at least two earlier structures. The street-facing facade features a plastered first floor, while the ground floor has a mid-19th-century public house front with an entablature and panelled pilasters. The building has large coved eaves, a steeply pitched slate roof, and brick chimneys. It is two storeys high, with cellars and two dormers. Originally, it had at least three bays, but the eastern part has been lost, leaving a boarded-over timber frame at the eastern end wall.

On the first floor, there are two contemporary oriel windows that extend through the coving to the eaves. The ground floor features elliptically arched windows flanking a central round-arched door with seven panels, the top panel being semi-circular. This door is set within a moulded architrave. Inside, substantial timber framing is visible, although the front wall has been replaced; however, wall posts that curve to brace the jetty remain. Three of the four corner posts are visible on a stone footing, while the rest of the ground floor is generally finished in stone or brick. The ceiling beams are intact, with stop-chamfered details, and a centre chamfered beam extends across the width of the building. The first floor has a later ceiling inserted above the tie beams.

A western rear timber-framed extension likely supported an earlier staircase. The current dog-leg staircase, dating from the earlier to mid-19th century, features a continuous handrail and iron balusters. The first-floor internal walls display close studding, with tall panels grooved to accommodate thin stone slab infill and lath and plaster infill around the windows and coving. The roof structure includes butt purlins with double purlins tenoned into trusses, arched wind braces, and collars.