Description

PARISH OF ROWSLEY BAKEWELL ROAD
SK 26 NE
5/176
(North Side)
29.9.51 The Peacock Hotel
GV II*
Hotel. Dated 1652, with later additions to rear. Coursed
squared sandstone with sandstone dressings and quoins. Stone
slate roof with coped gables, plain kneelers, ashlar ridge and
gable stacks. Crenellated parapet to porch. Chamfered plinth
and first and second floor bands. Two storeys, L-plan. Twin
gabled south elevation of 2-1-2 bays. Two storey projecting
square porch has a semi-circular stone step up to a round arched
doorway with moulded architrave and hoodmould enclosing a
tympanum inscribed 16 IOHNSTE 52. Half glazed C19 door.
VENSON
4-light recessed and chamfered mullion window above with a
transom. The return walls of the porch have a recessed and
chamfered cross window to each floor. The flanking gabled bays
have 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion and transomed
windows - two on the ground floor to the left and one to the
right, and two each to the first floor. In each gable is a
3-light recessed and chamfered mullion window with hoodmould.
In the centre a gabled roof dormer and on the porch parapet a
stone peacock carved in the late C19 by Trevi's Bath. The
ground floor windows have squared leaded lights, the upper
windows diamond leaded lights. The west gable end has a 4-light
recessed and chamfered mullioned and transomed window and a
similar cross window to the ground floor, a similar 4-light
window above and a 3-light mullioned window with hoodmould above
again. C19 bay to the north west in similar style. The east
gable end has a 4-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and
transomed window to the ground and first floor and a 3-light
mullioned window with hoodmould above. North east wing has to
the east six bays of similar cross windows or 3-light windows.

Listing NGR: SK2560065867

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Peacock Hotel official website
• Wikidata Q17545387

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)