Peterstone Court

Peterstone Court is a country house, now operating as a hotel, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with a slate hipped roof, featuring a coved moulded eaves cornice and tall rendered end stacks. The house is three storeys high and originally comprised five bays; the central three project slightly, topped by a large, steep pediment and a brick-arched lunette. The original windows have stone voussoirs and stone sills, with 6-pane sashes in the attic and 12-pane sashes on the main floor, separated by raised bands between floors. The central entrance features a 6-panel door with a petal-form fanlight, set within a fine square-headed doorcase; the moulded architrave is broken by rusticated blocks on the jambs and a triple keystone, supported by two consoles and a curved pediment.

The left side of the building has the bands carried around, with a windowless end to the front block (containing a ground-floor door) and two further bays to the left, alongside a 20th-century parallel-roofed single-storey addition with sash windows above. The right side is similar, but partly obscured by later additions. The rear elevation presents two chimney gables flanking a low hipped roof; the right gable features an external chimneybreast. The rear includes 9-pane attic sashes, 12-pane first-floor sashes, and a 20th-century hipped single-storey ground floor addition.

A fine, matching addition, reportedly dating from 1901, has been added to the right side, featuring a hipped roof with a moulded timber eaves cornice, raised plinth, and eaves band. The central three bays of this addition project forward, with a pediment and a large lunette displaying radiating glazing bars. The projecting section has three long, hornless 18-pane sashes with tooled stone lintels imitating stone voussoirs and stone sills; smaller 12-pane sashes flank these, and a square pyramid-roofed block with a blocked lunette is attached to the right. A 6-pane sash has been later inserted to the first floor on the left side, and three close-spaced 4-pane sashes with stone lintels were added to the ground floor. The west side wall has two four-pane upper windows and a single 6-pane centre ground floor window with stone voussoirs. An outbuilding runs south, with a full-height opening and two 20th-century eaves-breaking windows on the west front.

The house has a double pile plan, featuring a broad hall and a staircase positioned at the rear. A broad, arched hall opening, moulded with a keystone, is supported by fielded panelled piers and pilasters framing the front door and stair. The staircase is from the early 18th century, with three turned balusters per tread, column-on-vase balusters, column newels, a ramped rail with scrolled ends and tread ends, and a tall arched stair-light within an eared surround. It rises over two flights to the first-floor landing with an open well. A fine panelled room to the northeast features moulded scroll-footed architraves to the north windows, a fireplace on the east wall, and a modillion cornice. The panelling is in long sections with a dado rail. The fireplace has a moulded timber surround, under a painted timber lintel with rococo-style decoration flanked by consoles. There are fielded 6-panel doors, one to the hall and one to a rear room. The upper floors were not inspected. A ballroom in the 20th-century addition to the west has a coved ceiling, a moulded cornice, and a moulded ceiling border.