Little Peacocks

Little Peacocks is a house located in Filkins, dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, with a later 18th-century front and a quoin marked "Jonah Basset 1759." The property features a later 18th-century rear wing that includes re-used windows from the 17th to early 18th century. The house has been refurbished in the 20th century, with another quoin dated FWM/WM 1936-53.

The construction is primarily limestone, with a squared and coursed front, rubble gables, and a rear wall made of banded rubble and squared stone. It has dressed quoins and a stone slate roof with moulded stone gable copings and kneelers. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The eaves are coved plaster, and the front features three-pane sashes with moulded stone architrave surrounds and sills. The central entrance has a 20th-century barred and glazed door, also framed by a moulded stone architrave, narrow pulvinated frieze, and a moulded pediment. The left gable end has 20th-century wooden casements.

At the rear, there is a moulded stone string at first-floor level, and three bays of chamfered stone mullion and transom cross windows with Tudor hoodmoulds. The windows on the centre and right are blocked, as is the central doorway, which has a dressed stone surround. The later wing, which projects to the right of centre, features re-used stone mullion windows with Tudor hoodmoulds on its south-west wall. The gable end of this wing has external stone steps leading to a granary with ashlar lining. The interior of the main house is reported to have undergone significant alterations in the 20th century.