Pednor House

Pednor House is a farmhouse enlarged and converted around 1910, with origins in the 18th century. The original core of the property was a 17th-century timber-framed building, which was refronted in brick during the 18th century and significantly extended in approximately 1910 by the architects Forbes and Tate. The house is constructed of brick, with moulded brick window surrounds, mullions, transoms, quoins, and other decorative elements. It has clay tiled hipped roofs.

The north elevation faces a courtyard. The original house occupies the centre, with a two-storey projection of 1910 featuring a five-light window. A domed cupola sits on the ridge. All windows have metal casements and leaded glazing. The original house retains two windows on the left side and one on the right. To the right are 1910 additions of two bays, with a further projecting bay that incorporates a garage on the ground floor and a six-light window above. A right-hand wing serves as a separate cottage, formed from converted farm buildings, and features a roof at two different levels. There are two brick chimneys.

The left-hand wing includes a two-storey projecting corner block with a large mullioned and transomed window in the flank wall and projecting eaves. It connects to a converted barn, likely 18th century, with 1910 brick infill. A gabled former cart entry projection is at the centre, with oak doors and an old beam reset above a four-light window. Low outshots extend on each side under the continuation of the main roof, with two windows on the right and one window on the left. A two-light hipped dormer is also on the right. The gable end facing the road has two two-light windows on the ground floor and two single-light windows above.

The rear elevation (facing the garden) has two former cart entries filled with six-light mullion and transome windows, beneath a projecting roof supported on half-curved tiled crobels, with a four-light hipped dormer on the left. The garden elevation of the main house has a long continuous frontage. A gatehouse feature, incorporating an octagonal turret with a stone spire and a stone ‘Tudor’ arched gateway, is a 1920s alteration.