Nos 1-4 Inclusive Peamore House

Peamore House, Shillingford, is a large house subdivided into four properties. It is an early 19th-century remodelling and extension of an earlier building, presenting itself as a substantial two-storey residence rendered in whitewashed stucco over local red brecchia with slate roofs and early 19th-century brick chimneys featuring tall grouped shafts with ornamental cornices.

The plan is U-shaped, with a double-depth north range under a two-span roof (principal entrance on the north side) and east and west wings set at right angles, all executed in early 19th-century Tudor style with parapets, gabled forms, and hoodmoulds to the windows. The north and east ranges contain the principal rooms, including the principal stair and ballroom in the north range, and a former library in the east range. Nineteenth-century service rooms were located at the north end of the west wing. The early plan of the original house cannot be determined from the surviving evidence.

The symmetrical eight-bay east elevation, most visible from the road, is the most complete feature. It displays a moulded cornice below the parapet which rises as four gabled bays projecting slightly forward, each with tall pinnacles and armorial bearings in the gables. Windows are 12-pane sashes set in moulded architraves with hoodmoulds; a 20th-century door has been inserted in the second bay from the left. The north elevation is asymmetrical, with a projecting gabled bay with pinnacle to the left and a gabled bay to the right. A single-storey projecting porch features an embattled parapet rising as a gable in the centre, with a Tudor arched moulded outer doorway and plank-and-cover-strip inner door. A single-storey block adjoining the porch has been converted to garage use. Sash windows appear on this front, with a canted bay on the first floor to the left.

The south elevation, with moulded cornice and parapet, contains a large eight-light transomed stone window lighting the ballroom, probably of late 19th-century date. The south ends of both wings are gabled with pinnacles, each with a single-storey embattled bay containing a tripartite sash with hoodmould below a first-floor 12-pane sash also with hoodmould. An unrendered two-bay block adjoining the west wing at its left end has a 19th-century arched stone doorway and a first-floor two-light transomed oriel window, probably late 19th-century in date. Remnants of walling west of this wing indicate former buildings. The west wing sustains a gap in its west side resulting from fire damage. Late 20th-century plastic windows have been inserted on the west elevation.

The interior was not fully inspected at the time of survey. The south roof span of the north range contains two circa 17th-century roof trusses at the west end, with others possibly surviving. The east wing retains remnants of early 19th-century library fittings and contemporary joinery, though it is unclear whether panelling with egg-and-dart moulding and plaster cornices are original. A first-floor Tudor chimneypiece is said to survive but was not observed during the 1986 survey. The north range, including the ballroom and principal stair, was not inspected but likely contains significant interior features. An early 19th-century print and watercolour in the owners' possession depicts tall windows lighting the ballroom before the present transomed window was inserted, and shows stone balustrades fronting the east elevation.