Peachfield Cottage

Peachfield Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century, with extensions added in the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick, with some stone rubble at the rear, while the mid-20th extension is cement-rendered. The roof is gabled and covered with Welsh slate, featuring brick stacks.

Originally, the cottage had rooms on either side of a central stair-hall with winder stairs. The mid-19th extension to the left creates an L-shaped plan with a rear wing, and a mid-20th extension was added to the rear right around 1959-60.

The exterior is two storeys high. A later 19th-century open timber porch leads to an early 19th-century half-glazed door with a reeded architrave and glazing bars in the upper half. There are pointed arches above early 19th-century Gothick-style sash windows with switch tracery over 6-pane sashes, all fitted with horizontal-sliding louvred shutters from the mid-19th century or earlier. To the right, there is a canted bay window, reconstructed to match the original design, dating from the late 19th century. The mid-19th extension to the left features a gabled front with a similar canted bay on the ground floor and a plate-glass sash above, also with louvred shutters.

Inside, the winder stair has stick-balusters and a moulded newel post, with the original partition removed from the left-hand room, which now includes a classical-style marble fireplace with corner roundels. The mid-19th extension has a moulded cornice in the ground-floor room, and early to mid-19th-century joinery is present, including panelled doors. The facade is a notable example of Picturesque Gothick architecture from the Late Georgian period, with the shutters being particularly rare surviving features.