Peak House

Peak House, built in 1904 to designs by Evelyn Hellica for Sir Thomas Dewey, is a substantial house constructed in a well-executed early Georgian style, displaying similarities to early 18th century Cornish or Lowland Scots country houses. The house is built of ashlar with steep hipped slate roofs and tall ashlar corniced chimney stacks. The south-east front is symmetrical, featuring two-storey hipped-roof canted bays of three windows each, flanking a main range of two narrow window bays with a slightly advanced entrance bay. The entrance bay has a mutuled pediment, and a mutuled eaves cornice extends around the building, breaking forward over the canted bays. Rusticated quoins highlight the angles and a central break. The windows are glazing bar sashes in architrave surrounds, with eased keystones flanking the centre and spaced voussoir keys on the canted bays. A central round-headed French window doorway is surrounded by coupled Boric columns, an entablature, and a bracketed broken segmented pediment with a central cartouche. An angled north-west wing incorporates simplified details consistent with the fenestration and quoins. At the rear, the access angle of the splayed wing has an open-pedimented Ionic column porch, with a round-headed window above in a Gibbs surround. The interior is richly decorated with early 18th century style panelling, chimney-pieces, and a columnar screen to the hall. Door furnishings, cornices, mouldings and other details are consistent in style and of fine craftsmanship.