Pear Tree Farmhouse

PEAR TREE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1190719
Date first listed:
05-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Pear Tree Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
PEAR TREE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1190719
Date first listed:
05-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Pear Tree Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
PEAR TREE FARMHOUSE, MAIN 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PEAR TREE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
York (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hessay
National Grid Reference:
SE 52384 53353

Details

SE 55 SW HESSAY MAIN STREET (south side)

5/2 Pear Tree Farmhouse 5.3.86

II

House. Dendrochronological date of 1644-9. Brick in random bond, pantile roof with stone slates to rear. 4-cell baffle-entry house, the fourth cell having probably originally formed a cow byre or barn. Continuous outshut to rear, facing the road. Garden front: 2 storeys, 5 first-floor windows. Half-glazed door. 2-light casement and 2-light Yorkshire sash to left. 2-light Yorkshire sash and blocked rectangular vents and inserted C20 casement to right. 3-course band with moulded lower course. First floor: 2-light Yorkshire sashes with exception of casement to fourth opening. Stepped eaves band. Raised gable ends. End and ridge stacks. Interior: staircase immediately opposed to front door, probably in original position. Several original 4-panel doors on H-L hinges.

Listing NGR: SE5238453353

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
331644
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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