Pear Tree Farmhouse
Pear Tree Farmhouse, Victoria Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1038475
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Pear Tree Farmhouse, Victoria Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1038475
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Pear Tree Farmhouse, Victoria Street
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Pear Tree Farmhouse, Victoria Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- East Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yoxall
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 14237 19305
Details
SK 1418
171/7/28
YOXALL
VICTORIA STREET (west side)
Pear Tree Farmhouse
12.03.1964
II*
Farmhouse. Circa C14, timber-framed; remodelled C17 and remodelled again in circa early C18 in red brick. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial, gable-end and lateral stacks.
PLAN: two-bay base-cruck hall with spere-truss at the low [east] end, and a two bay two storey cross-wing at the high [west] end with a crown-post roof. Floor and axial stack inserted in hall circa C17. Remodelled, the lower end rebuilt, and clad in brick in about the early C18.
EXTERIOR: two storeys, cross-wing with attic. Asymmetrical 1:3 window south front; slightly advanced gabled cross-wing on left. C18/19 two- and three-light wooden mullion-transom windows with casements and horizontal glazing bars, those on left in cross-wing have cambered brick arches; doorway to right of centre with reeded architrave, dentilled cornice and six-panel door, top panels glazed; later glazed door door on right. Rear [north] gabled cross-wing on right, with small gable-ended wing to its left, and later outshut to main range on left.
INTERIOR: hall base-cruck with cambered collar [tie-beam] with arch-braces with roll-and-fillet moulding and broach stops at base; large square-set clasped purlins [arcade-plate], spere-truss at low end of hall with jowled arcade-posts', similarly arch-braced to cambered tie/collar; the hall's roof structure above the tie/collar has been reconstructed, but re-using some of the smoke-blackened common-rafters. The cross-wing has an intact two bay crown-post roof, the crown-posts with curved four way bracing to the tie-beams and crown-plate; jowled storey-posts with arch-braces to the tie-beams; exposed wall-framing with large curved braces. Hall has inserted floor with chamfered axial beams with cyma stops and unchamfered joists, and fireplace with stone jambs and chamfered timber bressumer with run-out stops. Kitchen has large fireplace, its bressumer made from re-used timber, moulded behind and with soffit mortices. Small cupboard in side of axial stack. C18 cupboard in parlour. Panelled partitions inserted into hall chamber.
Listing NGR: SK1423719305
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 273564
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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