The Peacock Guest House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1988. Guest house.

The Peacock Guest House

WRENN ID
hollow-footing-moth
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Holland
Constituency
South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 January 1988
Type
Guest house
Address
The Peacock Guest House, High Street, Donington
OS grid reference
TF 208 356
Coordinates
52.90502, -0.20399
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Peacock Guest House is a former house, now serving as a guest house, dating from the late 17th century and altered in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick with a stucco front and features a machine plain tile roof, brick coped tumbled gables, and two gable stacks. The building has a T-plan layout and is two storeys plus attics high, with a three-bay front that includes a plinth and stucco quoins.

The central gabled porch has a front parapet and a semi-circular opening containing a 20th-century half-glazed door, flanked by single canted bay windows with plain sashes, plain pilasters, cornices, and flat lead roofs. On the first floor, there are three plain sashes with splayed stucco lintels. The roof features two gabled two-light casement dormers with leaded cheeks.

Inside, the building has chamfered ogee stopped girders, and the ground floor rooms retain early 18th-century cornices. The first floor includes a full-height early 18th-century fielded panelled room and an ashlar fireplace surround. There are original six-panelled doors and a dogleg staircase with large turned balusters.

Local climate

The Peacock Guest House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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