Pear Tree Cottage
PEAR TREE COTTAGE, POND APPROACH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332457
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE, POND APPROACH
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03497/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332457
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE, POND APPROACH
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, POND APPROACH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Missenden
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 90434 97139
Details
LITTLE MISSENDEN POND APPROACH SU 99 NW (north side) Holmer Green 3/40
- Pear Tree Cottage II
Pair of cottages, now all one. Early C18 with late C18/early C19 added wing; C20 alterations and additions. Red brick in Flemish bond, wing with blue headers; plain tile roofs. 2 storeys, 2 bays, with 2-bay wing added to rear left, added rear outshut in angle with wing, and 1960s additions to rear right and set back on right. Entrance elevation: flint and brick plinth. Board stable door at each end, that on left in 1960s open, gabled, porch. Two 2- light 1960s wooden casement windows to each floor with tile sills. Ground- floor openings have segmental header-brick arches. Platt band. Boxed eaves. Hipped roof with central ridge stack. Left return: front range is pebble- dashed and has platt bank returned from front. Wing: central small-pane glazed door flanked by blue-brick vertical panels, a 2-light window to left, and a 3-light window and end of iron tie-rod to right; two 2-light windows to 1st floor; ground-floor openings have segmental headed-brick arches; windows have small-pane glazing (apart from 1960s window to lst-floor left) and tile sills; stepped dentilled eaves; roof hipped at left end. Rear: wing has stepped eaves and lateral stack to inner return; 1960s rear addition and late C20 lean-to addition against wing are not of special interest. Interior: central chimney, with back-to-back fireplaces, retains large fireplace with timber bressumer in left-hand room, with old board cupboard doors on its right. Large-scantling cross-beam with wooden-pegged joists in left-hand room. Roof of main range has bridle-jointed, rafters and no ridge-piece; raking queen- strut roof truss at junction with wing which has plant ridge-piece. The building is reported to date to c.1704 and at one time to have been used as the village workhouse.
Listing NGR: SU9043497139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44596
- 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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