Peckers Farmhouse

TL 51 NE 2/9

GREAT CANFIELD GREEK STREET PECKERS FARMHOUSE

GV II

Farmhouse, late C16 and early C17, with C19 and C20 extension. Timber- framed, lower walls plastered, upper walls tilehung, roof tiled. The SE crosswing remains from an earlier hall house. The NW crosswing and the 2-storey hall block built or rebuilt in the early C17, with early C17 stair tower in the S angle. (The RCHM reported that both crosswings were jettied but no evidence of jetties visible in 1982). Original axial chimney stack at NW end of hall block, with 4 octagonal shafts accurately restored 1981. C17 external stack at SE end. Cellar under NW crosswing. C19 and C20 rear extensions to this wing. Ground floor of SE crosswing is blind to the front: 2 C20 casements on ground floor, 5 C20 casements on first floor, C20 gabled porch. Plaster frieze, 1600-1620, around 1½ walls of lower SE room, remainder reproduced 1981. Some early C17 panelling in lower middle room, C17 stair posts, rail-and string, with C20 flat balusters. 2-movement iron crane fixed in brickwork of main hearth, pivot defective. RCHM 7.

Listing NGR: TL5721719107