Pear Tree Farmhouse

PEAR TREE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352466
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Pear Tree Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
PEAR TREE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352466
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Pear Tree Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
PEAR TREE FARMHOUSE

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

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

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Ashfield cum Thorpe
National Grid Reference:
TM 21210 63198

Details

ASHFIELD CUM THORPE TM 26 SW

5/1 Pear Tree Farmhouse - - II

Former farmhouse. C15 core with C16-C17 alteration. Wing to north added c.1985. Timber framed and plastered; roof clad in synthetic slates. 3-cell form. 1 1/2 storeys. Mid C20 casement windows. Cross-entry has mid C20 gabled porch with boarded and battened door. 3 flat-roofed dormers with standard small-paned windows. Internal stack with rendered shaft. Interior. Modernised. Some full-height studding, exposed mainly in the front wall. A pair of wallposts have blocked mortices for braces supporting the central truss over an open hall. Evidence for hall window. Stack inserted in upper end of hall, perhaps preceded by a timber flue. Inserted hall ceiling has heavy chamfered bridging beam, probably C16, not resting on wallposts. Joists concealed. Heavy plain square joists in parlour, trimmed for a stairtrap. Square-headed service doorways of late C16/early C17. The roof is a post- medieval replacement, probably C17.

Listing NGR: TM2121063198

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
281425
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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