Peckers Farmhouse

Peckers Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century and early 17th century, with 19th and 20th-century extensions. It features a timber-framed structure, with plastered lower walls and tile-hung upper walls, topped by a tiled roof. The southeast crosswing is a remnant of an earlier hall house. The northwest crosswing and the two-storey hall block were built or rebuilt in the early 17th century, which includes an early 17th-century stair tower in the southern angle. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (RCHM) noted that both crosswings were originally jettied, although no evidence of jetties was visible in 1982. The original axial chimney stack is located at the northwest end of the hall block, featuring four octagonal shafts that were accurately restored in 1981. There is also a 17th-century external stack at the southeast end and a cellar beneath the northwest crosswing. The 19th and 20th-century extensions are located at the rear of this wing. The ground floor of the southeast crosswing is blind to the front, with two 20th-century casements on the ground floor and five on the first floor, along with a 20th-century gabled porch. A plaster frieze dating from 1600 to 1620 surrounds one and a half walls of the lower southeast room, with the remainder reproduced in 1981. The lower middle room contains some early 17th-century panelling, and the stair features 17th-century posts and rail-and-string construction, with 20th-century flat balusters. An iron crane, which is defective at the pivot, is fixed in the brickwork of the main hearth.