Pettistree Lodge

Pettistree Lodge is a house now divided into two dwellings, situated on The Street in Pettistree. The building dates from the 16th century in its core, though it has been heavily altered and added to in the early and mid-19th century and again in the 1920s and 1940s.

The structure is timber-framed with colourwashed render and brick with colourwashed render, topped with a slate roof. The building is two and two-and-a-half storeys in height.

The entrance front features a projecting wing with a hipped roof at right, built in the 1920s. This two-storey wing has a band at first-floor sill level and contains to the ground floor a central sash window of 4 x 4 panes flanked by windows of 2 x 4 panes. The first floor has a similar arrangement. The left-hand flank of this wing contains a tripartite window to the ground floor with central French windows and lateral lights with an overlight, plus two sash windows of 3 x 4 panes to the centre and left.

To the left of this wing, recessed, stands the 19th-century refacing of the original 16th-century house. This range comprises five bays arranged in near-symmetrical disposition across two-and-a-half storeys. Giant Ionic pilasters flank the outer sides of the central three bays, rising the full height of the front. A flat-roofed porch supported by paired Tuscan pillars projects before the ground floor of these three central bays. Behind this porch is a central tripartite window with a central sash of 4 x 4 panes and lateral sashes of 1 x 4 panes. Arched niches flank this window, with the left-hand niche containing a circular window. The right-hand bay features a similar tripartite window. The first floor displays three central sashes of 3 x 4 panes, with the lateral bays having sashes of 4 x 4 panes. The five attic windows are all 5 x 2 panes.

The right-hand side of the house has a slightly lower projecting gabled wing of the 1940s connecting to a garage block. The left-hand gable end features a 20th-century outshut at ground-floor level. The gable has a roof of shallow pitch at right and steep pitch at left.

The rear elevation displays four gabled projecting wings with a long outshut at ground-floor level to the left, which has a pitched lead roof, hipped at the left end, and a tripartite ground-floor window. To the right of this outshut are double doors and a sash window of 3 x 3 panes. The first floor has two further casement windows in the right-hand gable with a 2-light attic window above. The gable to the left of this has two 2-light casements. A chimney stack rises at the left of this gable. The two gables beyond contain 20th-century 2-light and single-light windows to the ground and first floors, with decorative bargeboards, and a 20th-century canted bay window to the ground floor at the far right.

Internally, the dining room of the southern dwelling retains a 16th-century chamfered ceiling beam with stepped lamb's tongue end stops at one end and lengthy plain timber beyond, appearing as if once jettied or possibly re-used timber. The drawing room contains a mid-19th-century moulded ceiling and wall panels with egg-and-dart surround, and a neo-classical chimneypiece of the same period, decorated with swags and paterae and flanked by Corinthian columns. The roof space reveals a 17th-century roof above which a further roof of shallower pitch was constructed to give the entrance front a more classical outline.