Peacehouse

Peacehouse, located at Nos 6 and 8 on Bratton Road in Westbury, is a building dating from the 15th and 16th centuries that has undergone alterations. No 6 is a two-storey structure built on a light rubble stone plinth featuring a spur buttress. The upper part is timber-framed with brick infilling and has a pantile roof. On the first floor, there are two twin casement windows, and one casement window on the ground floor to the right. The left return front has an ancient three-plank double thickness nail-studded door set in a later plain lattice wood porch, with one casement window to the right. Originally, No 6 was a small three-bay house with its gable end facing the road and thatched roofing. The ground floor retains heavily moulded Tudor cross beams. This part of the building was extended to form the present house and connect with the later No 8.

No 8 appears as a later wing to the left with an 'L' plan. It is constructed of rubble, with its gable end facing the road and features alternate thick and thin coursing. The roof is also covered with pantiles. There are two ranges of 19th-century casement windows on the left-hand wing and one on the ground floor of the right-hand wing. Each wing has a ledged door with modern porches. The older origins of No 8 are suggested by an internal wall that is said to be 8 feet thick and by a now roofed-over hip visible from the roof space of No 6.