Conservation Areas in Harborough district - Peatling Parva Conservation Area

Peatling Parva is a small single-street linear settlement along a minor road just off from the larger Bruntingthorpe Road. The street gently rises from the stream close to the Bruntingthorpe Road to the church and entrance gates to the Hall some 0.4km away. The Conservation Area extends from the stream with a large beech tree at the lower end to include the Hall and its grounds at the upper end. The lower end of the village is an attractive cluster around a small triangular granite kerbed green at the junction of three roads. There is an oak tree in the centre of this green. This area has an open aspect with wide verges, has a cluster of thatched and timberframed buildings, one a single cell timberframed dwelling (now much added to) suggesting squatters dwellings on the edge of the former settlement. A 1995 replacement village hall overlooks the green.

The upper end of the village has Peatling Hall and its extensive grounds, with the Church and Rectory in close proximity. The gateway and drive to the Hall continue directly from the Main Street and terminate the vista; the road deviates around the grounds, bounded by a long brick estate wall. The trees in the grounds, beech and oak, are mature and partially conceal the Hall. The small granite and sandstone church is set back opposite the gateway to the Hall within a raised churchyard having several large lime trees.

Between the upper ends of the Conservation Area with Church and Hall, and the lower end with its cluster of thatched and timberframed houses is the single main street of fairly low density houses with gardens including much 20th century infill development. The development is generally of single and 1½ storeyed dwellings of varied materials, many set back from the road and its wide verges to the west side. A few granite boundary walls remain. The street is punctuated in the middle of its length by the 19th century Cedar Farmhouse with its gable end to the road, and almost opposite the buildings of The Shires public house. Peatling Parva is a quiet linear village whose principal interest lies in the two extreme ends linked by a road of houses and gardens.

Peatling Parva Conservation Area map