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

• The Peacock Hotel official website
• Wikidata Q17545387

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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