Pettistree Hall

Pettistree Hall is a farmhouse combining 15th, 16th and 17th-century work with 19th-century additions and alterations. The building is constructed of rendered timber frame with English bond brick and a plain tile roof, arranged in an L-shaped plan with a single-storey service range forming an open courtyard. It rises to two storeys with attics.

The garden front features a projecting wing of early 17th-century date with a shaped gable to its end. The gable has a central gable stack with brick kneelers and a band of two bricks depth below the parapet, with three courses of projecting brick to the coping. The sides of the gable are convex and the stack bears two square flues joined by projecting horizontal bands of brick. To the right of this wing, the central portion has a 19th-century doorway with six raised and fielded panels and moulded surround beneath a lean-to porch. Flanking this are 19th-century three-light casement windows, with a 19th-century sash window of three by four panes to the first floor slightly to the left of the door. To the right is a further projecting single-storey service wing with a lean-to at its gable end. The ridge of the central range carries a massive chimney stack at the left with four square flues and moulded bricks to the top, with a similar moulded stack at the right, its flues renewed in the 20th century and of less height. The rear range has a hipped roof.

The left face shows the 17th-century wing at right with a higher ridge level than the spinal range at its left and 19th-century fenestration. A two-light horned sash window with king mullion and two by two sash panes is positioned at the right, with a similar window to the first floor bearing earlier sashes of three by four panes to each. To the left of this is a ground-floor window of three by four sash panes and a first-floor window of three by two panes. To the left again, the earlier range has a ground-floor window of two sashes divided by a king mullion, the lower sashes having plate glass and the upper three by three panes. To the attic is a two-light gabled dormer window.

The entrance front has a doorway approximately at centre with a 19th-century door of four raised and fielded panels with two upper glazed panels, and an ashlar surround having pilaster strips at either side with moulded capitals and ovolo moulding to the door surround. A 19th-century gabled porch with brick plinth, open timber work to the sides and plain tile roof stands in front. To either side at ground-floor level are three-light 19th-century casement windows. At the far right is a ground-floor window of two sashes divided by a king mullion with plate glazing below and three by two panes to each upper sash. At far left is a 19th-century window of two by three sash panes. The first floor has a central two-light casement window, to the right of which is a three-light 19th-century casement window, and to the left a two-light casement window with a similar window at far left.

Interior features include parment-tiled floors at ground-floor level. The kitchen has chamfered ceiling beams with stepped run-out stops. The drawing room ceiling contains four encased beams forming a cross pattern, with a late 18th or early 19th-century Neo-classical fireplace and buffet cupboards. The chimney piece has a central projecting panel with palmettes and anthemia and paterae, with lateral panels also bearing paterae above semi-pilasters to the sides with acanthus leaves to their necking. The cupboards at either side have beed ornament to their arches and paterae to the projecting key pieces with fluting to the springers. An early 19th-century staircase hall and through-passage were formed in the earlier wing, the staircase having stick balusters and moulded tread ends. The staircase in the 17th-century wing has lost its lowest two flights rising from ground to first floors, but the newel drops to the upper flight display panels of faceted rustication and heart shapes to the drop knops. This staircase continues between the first and attic floors with two flights, a half-landing and attic landing. The upper knops of the newels are similar to the dropped knops in their moulding. The stout handrail has cyma recta and cavetto profile. Splat balusters appear in the attic balustrade and richly-moulded flat balusters to the flights. A rectangular newel with paired upper and dropped knops marks the half-landing. Dado panelling to flights includes halved newels. Further evidence of timber framing is visible in several first-floor rooms and the attics.