Petersfield

Petersfield is a rectory, now a detached house, built between 1844 and 1846 by J. Hicks. It is constructed of random rubble stone and features a stone slate roof with coped verges and notable stone stacks, some of which are octagonal. The building is designed in a 16th-century style and has a rambling L-plan layout. The east front is two-storey with six windows.

To the left of the center, there is a two-storey gabled porch with a Tudor-arched opening and an oriel window on the first floor, which displays heraldic arms on the gable. Adjacent to the porch is a conservatory featuring arched mullioned casements. The right side has a gabled bay with a six-light mullioned and transomed casement on the ground floor and a four-light first-floor mullioned casement. All windows have cast-iron latticed glazing and relieving arches, with first-floor string courses. The range to the right has simpler chamfered mullioned casements.

The left side, or garden front, includes a large canted stone bay on the right with a three-light mullioned and transomed casement featuring arched lights and a battlemented parapet. The left range has two shouldered doorways and two cross windows, with a three-light mullioned and transomed casement and a two-light mullioned casement on the first floor, along with a three-light mullioned casement with arched lights above the bay on the right. The rear services include plain two-light mullioned casements, and there is a gabled stair turret on the right with a cross window featuring arched lights, as well as a gabled bellcote on the roof.

Inside, the rectory retains good quality original fittings, including Tudor-arched stone doorways with eight-panelled oak doors, a staircase with thick twisted balusters and square newels, and an arched opening in the landing wall with a stone quatrefoiled balcony. The Tudor-arched fireplaces throughout the house are particularly notable, especially the elaborate one in the drawing room, which has octagonal columns supporting a quatrefoiled frieze. The drawing room also features a plaster ceiling frieze, while the dining room boasts a rib-panelled wooden ceiling supported by carved wooden angel corbels and stone Tudor-arched alcoves on attached shafts. This building is a good example of a gothic-style rectory.