Pear Tree House
PEAR TREE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304341
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree House
- Statutory Address:
- PEAR TREE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304341
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEAR TREE HOUSE
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 HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Piddletrenthide
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 70548 99752
Details
SY 79 NW PIDDLETRENTHIDE PIDDLETRENTHIDE VILLAGE (EAST SIDE)
12/217 26-1-56 Pear Tree House GV II
House, C16, remodelled C19. Banded flint and rubble with upper floor in banded brick and flint. Rubble quoins. Gable-ended thatched roof with end brick stacks. 1½ storeys, 3 window range. Ground floor has 3-light casements with full glazing bars to the right and horizontal glazing bars to the left. The upper floor has 2-light casements with glazing bars. Central C20 door. Internal features (RCHM): open fireplace with chamfered surround and 4-centred head cut from reused altar-stone with 5 incised consecration crosses; end newel stone stair entred through doorway with 4-centred head; upper doorway with 4-centred head and continuous jambs; upper fireplace with moulded 4-centred head with carved initials in the spandrels; ceilings with deep chamfered, intersecting beams. RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 217, no 10.
Listing NGR: SY7054899752
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104948
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset III Central, (1970), 217
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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