Pear Tree Cottage
PEAR TREE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098156
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098156
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE
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 COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Payhembury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 06643 01704
Details
PAYHEMBURY LOWER TALE ST 00 SE 3/98 Pear Tree Cottage - - II
Cottage. Early - mid C18 enlarged circa 1980. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings, partly patched with brick; timber-framed and cob stack topped with C20 brick; thatch roof. Plan: 3-room plan cottage facing south-west. The right room section is a circa 1975 extension. The other 2 rooms make up the C18 house; a larger living room to left heated by a gable-end stack with a winder stair rising alongside. The small unheated room was a service room, probably a dairy or buttery. There is evidence of a former smoking chamber to rear (see below). 2 storeys with C20 service extension to rear. Exterior: 3-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. The front doorway is left of centre and contains an old plank door behind a C20 porch. The roof is half- hipped. Interior: the rooms of the old house have plain carpentry detail. The fireplace is stone rubble and C19 brick. It has an oak-framed front with bead-moulded surround, the same moulding on the frame of an early cupboard in the rear wall. Alongside to left an oak steep winder stair rises round the back of round-headed cupboard alcove. Even though the roof structure was replaced circa 1980 the joinery of the main room survives very well; rustic and simple, a good example of an early cottage interior. In 1983 the stack was exposed. A brief note made then reports that it is cob and timber-framed and that a second timber-framed flue was inserted through its rear side from a small brick room there, presumably a smoking chamber. This is a very late example of a timber-framed chimneystack. Source: Devon SMR worksheet by D. M. Griffiths, July 1983.
Listing NGR: ST0664301704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86855
- 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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