Pecks Farm Close

This is a farmhouse, likely dating back to the 15th century, with additions built in the first half of the 16th century and modifications from the 17th century. Further alterations and additions occurred in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The structure is timber-framed with wattle and daub infill, some of which has been replaced with brick. The front and sides are currently pebble-dashed, while the rear is constructed of painted brick. It has a plain tile roof, with more recent concrete tiles on the front and clay tiles at the rear, alongside a corrugated-iron roof over the outshut. Brick stacks are present.

The original design was a two-bay hall house featuring a central crown post on the right side. A further two framed bays were added, with smoke-blackened roof timbers remaining visible. Floors were subsequently inserted, large chimney stacks were added internally to the left end, and an external stack was added to the right. A rear outshut was constructed beneath a cat-slide roof, with a lean-to added to each gable.

The south front features a plinth to the left-hand bays and incorporates a part-glazed door on the right. There is a two-light window to the left of the door, followed by two three-light windows. Two three-light gabled dormers are positioned above, and a three-light window is located on each floor of the right-hand section. All windows are wooden casements with vertical glazing bars. A stack rises through the ridge near the left end, while another external stack is enclosed by a lean-to, which has a board door, pebble-dashed front, and weatherboard to the side and rear. A timber-framed lean-to with weatherboard is also present on the left-hand side.

The rear elevation’s almost continuous outshut, except across the left end, has a 20th-century window on the left, a blocked window on the right, a gabled two-light dormer above, and a doorway on each return.

Inside, the ground floor shows chamfered spine beams, with the beam in the right-hand cell terminating in the entrance passage, featuring a lambs-tongue stop with a truncated pyramid on its hollow. An 18th-century cupboard, built into a gap behind a stack at the left end, has an open-fronted, round-arched upper section with decoratively carved shelves. The visible timber-framing on the rear wall from the outshut comprises large posts and mid-rails, with close-spaced studs creating narrow rectangular panels, and some original wattle and daub. Square-panelled timber-framing of the right-hand gable wall is visible inside the lean-to. On the first floor, between the left-hand bays, there's a cambered tie-beam with a crown post supporting a collar purlin; the post exhibits broad corner chamfers and a cyma-moulded head with cyma stops to its chamfered sides, also featuring an arch brace extending from the rear wall-post to the tie-beam. The extreme left-hand end retains diagonally-set clasped purlins, some original rafters, and an arched brace extending from the rear wall-post to the wall-plate. An inserted first-floor partition wall is constructed of square-panelled timber-framing with brick infill. Elsewhere, framing is concealed by wallpaper, though in the right-hand bay at the rear, some original smoke-blackened rafters are visible, along with straight wind-braces. Surviving features include old panelled and plank doors, a wooden winder stair, and a plain fireplace surround to the left-hand room. This is a well-preserved example of a late-medieval hall-house with post-medieval additions.