The Peacock Hotel

The Peacock Hotel is a Grade II* hotel located on Bakewell Road in Rowsley. It dates back to 1652, with later additions to the rear. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone, featuring sandstone dressings and quoins, and has a stone slate roof with coped gables, plain kneelers, and ashlar ridge and gable stacks. A crenellated parapet adorns the porch, which has a chamfered plinth and bands at the first and second floors.

The hotel is two storeys high and has an L-plan layout. The south elevation has twin gables and consists of two bays, followed by one bay, and then two more bays. A two-storey projecting square porch features a semi-circular stone step leading up to a round arched doorway, which has a moulded architrave and hoodmould that encloses a tympanum inscribed with "16 IOHNSTE 52." The porch has a half-glazed 19th-century door and a four-light recessed and chamfered mullion window above with a transom. Each return wall of the porch has a recessed and chamfered cross window on both floors.

The flanking gabled bays contain three-light recessed and chamfered mullion and transomed windows—two on the ground floor to the left and one to the right, with two on each floor above. Each gable features a three-light recessed and chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould. A gabled roof dormer is located in the centre, and a stone peacock carved in the late 19th century by Trevi's Bath sits on the porch parapet. The ground floor windows have squared leaded lights, while the upper windows feature diamond leaded lights.

The west gable end has a four-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transomed window, along with a similar cross window on the ground floor, a four-light window above, and a three-light mullioned window with a hoodmould above that. There is a 19th-century bay to the northwest in a similar style. The east gable end features a four-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transomed window on both the ground and first floors, as well as a three-light mullioned window with a hoodmould above. The northeast wing has six bays of similar cross windows or three-light windows to the east.