Pear Tree Cottage
PEAR TREE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253864
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13749/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253864
- Date first listed:
- 17-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:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 18350 44634
Details
TR 14 SE ELHAM NORTH ELHAM
4/48 Pear Tree Cottage
GV II
Farmhouse. Probably later C17, partly rebuilt in C18, altered in C19, and incorporating C16 material. Front elevation red and grey brick in Flemish bond. Right return partly header bond, partly Flemish and mixed bond. Rear and left return older red and grey brick in a mixed bond, except for upper part of first floor, which is interrupted Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Central-entry plan. Double depth. 2 storeys, attic, and semi-cellar. Low flint plinth. Dentilled brick eaves cornice to each elevation. Steeply-pitched hipped roof, hips returning to rear. Projecting brick stack with flint base panel towards front of right return, and truncated projecting brick stack towards front of left return. Two flat-roofed two-light dormers. Regular 3-window front of two pairs of four-pane sashes in open boxes, and central two-light casement. Similar sashes to ground floor, with segmental heads. Blocked central doorway (to left end of longer right room). Rear elevation has one three-light and one single-light casement to first floor, segmental heads to ground-floor casements, and central boarded door with segmental head. Interior: chamfered cross beam, bevelled joists, and brick fireplace with niches and chamfered bressumer, to front right ground floor room. Chamfered axial beam and fireplace with high bressumer to rear right room. Plank doors. U-plan roof of staggered butt purlins in short lengths, with re-used rafters from a lapped-collar roof. Short lengths of C16 moulded beams re-used in cellar. Formerly known as North Elham Dairy (milk and dairy produce formerly dispensed from a small adjacent single-storey outbuilding).
Listing NGR: TR1835044634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437171
- 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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