Peghouse Farmhouse

Peghouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with later alterations and additions from the 19th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and painted brick infill, along with some brick replacement walling. The roofs are tiled, and there is a coursed sandstone rubble chimney with a rebuilt brick stack at the upper end of the main roof ridge, as well as a late 19th-century external brick stack on the left side elevation. The building has a hall and cross-wing plan, each consisting of two framed bays, with the hall part retaining a through-passage. It stands two storeys high with an attic and a cellar beneath the cross-wing.

The framing features regular square panels, with four panels from the sill to the wall-plate, and includes a double collar queen strut truss in the cross-wing gable ends, along with a queen strut truss in the left gable end of the main part. The front elevation displays irregular fenestration, with the main part featuring two ground floor casements and a lean-to extension at the left end that has a casement. There are also two first floor casements, while the cross-wing gable end to the right has casements on both the ground and first floors, plus an attic light.

A gabled porch is attached to the lean-to extension at the right end, featuring a tiled roof and rendered sandstone side walls. It includes three moulded stone balusters, with niches at the ends and inner sides decorated with plaster fleur-de-lys and shells. The stonework used in the porch is reused from the Old Severn Bridge in Worcester. The part-glazed door has an eared architrave, with ears made of carved panels and an architrave beneath that is decorated with carved bearded foxes and rosettes.

Inside, the roof has intermediate queen strut trusses and single, trenched purlins. The rear ground floor wall of the cross-wing adjoining the hall reveals close-set vertical studding. The main beams feature moulded chamfers and stops. There is a 19th-century single storey extension at the left gable end, along with a wing to the rear left that includes an outshut and a ridge end stack.