West Peek Farmhouse

West Peek Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the late 16th century. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble and features a slate roof with gabled ends. The eastern lower end has a lower roof level, while the higher end over the hall and inner room displays some old crested ridge tiles. The building has a 3-room and cross-passage plan, with a solid wall separating the hall from the inner room. A large axial chimney stack is located at the back of the cross-passage, accompanied by two smaller chimney stacks at the gable ends, one of which is a later addition.

The farmhouse is two storeys tall and has a long six-window range, with 19th and 20th-century casements. At the lower end, there are two ground floor three-light hollow-chamfered granite mullion windows with hood moulds, although the left-hand window is missing some mullions. To the right of the centre, there is a two-storey gabled porch with a chamfered granite four-centred doorway. A similar inner doorway leads to the cross passage but features a depressed two-centred arch. At the rear of the higher end, there is a gabled stair tower with a small blocked four-centred head window that has a hood mould. A small 20th-century outshut is present at the rear, and there is no indication of a rear door to the passage.

Inside, the fireplaces have been blocked and the ceiling beams are covered. There is a stone newel stair with a large timber newel in the rear stair tower. The roof over the hall consists of two trusses that are morticed at the apex, with lap-jointed collars, and two tiers of threaded purlins and rafters that remain intact. All roof timbers over the hall are whitewashed, and the partition wall between the hall and upper end is plastered. The roof space over the upper end is inaccessible. Over the lower end, there are four roof trusses with side-pegged morticed apices and collars, along with two tiers of threaded purlins and pegged rafters that are also intact. This largely unaltered house retains an original roof that is almost completely intact. It has likely always been a two-storey house with a ceiled hall, suggesting it was built in the last half of the 16th century, although some of the fabric may be older. A manor at Peek is mentioned in the Domesday Book.