Little Peacocks

SP2204-2304 FILKINS AND BROUGHTON POGGS VILLAGE STREET (South-west side) Filkins 7/205 Little Peacocks 12/09/55

GV II House. Late C17-early C18, refronted later C18 and dated "Jonah Basset 1759" on quoin; later C18 rear wing with re-used C17-early C18 windows; refurbished C20, with another quoin dated FWM/WM 1936-53. Limestone, with squared and coursed front, rubble gables, and rear wall of banded rubble and squared stone. Dressed quoins. Stone slate roof with moulded stone gable copings and kneelers. Flanking chimneys with C20 brick shaft on C18 moulded stone strings. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Coved plaster eaves. Front has 3-pane sashes with moulded stone architrave surrounds and sills. Central C20 barred and glazed door, also in moulded stone architrave surround, with narrow pulvinated frieze and moulded pediment. C20 wooden casements in left gable end. Rear has moulded stone string at first floor level, and 3 bays of chamfered stone mullion and transom cross windows with Tudor hoodmoulds. Windows to centre and right are blocked, as is central doorway with dressed stone surround. Later wing projects to right of centre, and has re-used stone mullion windows with Tudor hoodmoulds in south-west wall. Gable end of this wing has external stone steps to granary with ashlar lining. Interior of main house said to have been much altered C20.

Listing NGR: SP2366804096