Peg'S Farmhouse

Peg’s Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating back to the 14th century, with extensions built in the 17th century. It is timber-framed on a rubble base, with painted brick infill, a plain tiled roof, and brick stacks. The house originally formed a hall house with gabled cross-wings to the left and right, and has been extended to the rear. The main section is single-storey with attics in the gables, featuring half-dormers. It has three bays with 2- and 3-light casement windows, some of which are 20th century. A projecting porch is located off-centre on the left side. The rear wing (to the right) is two storeys high and contains a continuous, moulded jetty to the first floor, with a single 20th-century casement window and a French door.

The main hall retains its 14th-century woodwork. A floor, supported by stop-chamfered, triple hollow and roll-moulded beams, and a rubble stack have been inserted. The central truss is a base cruck with an arch-braced base decorated with an ovolo-step-ovolo moulding, foiled raking struts, and principal rafters forming a quatrefoil flanked by trefoils. The wall-plate is also elaborately moulded. The lower bay incorporates a screens passage separated by a spere truss. The spere-posts are jowled, with arch-braces featuring open spandrels, and all timbers are ovolo moulded, mirroring the design of the central base cruck truss. Remains of a full cruck truss survive where the former service end was located, though the lower part was destroyed during remodelling. The upper bay has an arch-braced collar-beam intermediate truss and cusped windbraces. The dais end truss is also a full cruck truss, incorporating two finely carved trefoil-headed panels on the upper floor. The rear wing (right) contains a winder stair. The ground floor features ovolo-moulded beams with run-out stops, while the first floor has chamfered beams with broach stops. Further features include chamfered stone jambs to the fireplace and a small doorway with a depressed head, along with jowled posts.