Pear Tree Cottage
PEAR TREE COTTAGE, BYLES GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391345
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE, BYLES GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391345
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE, BYLES GREEN
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, BYLES GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bucklebury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 54288 69034
Details
BUCKLEBURY
1107/0/10015 BYLES GREEN 17-MAR-05 Pear Tree Cottage
II Farmhouse, C18 with C19 re-facing, some C20 alterations. Timber-framed with brick walls; deep overhanging pitched thatched roof; brick end chimneystacks. 3 bays and two storeys. EXTERIOR: Flemish bond red brick with vitrified headers. From left, a C19 square casement window with 4 octagonal panes under cambered arch with vitrified headers, then bricked up former door under similar arch, then C20 door under porch with thatched roof that has wany planks to gable, this under first floor metal casement window, then similar square window to right end. South gable has exposed timber frame, central brick chimneybreast flanked by casements (one is metal) and small outshut; outshut to rear is C20. North gable has some exposed framing, and a chimney rising up from a single storey addition. This and the large C20 extension to rear at north are not of special interest. INTERIOR: Ground floor has exposed spine beam and light scantling joists. Plank doors. Box frame partition exposed in central bay where there is a timber stair. First floor set into roof, plastered below collar level and with box frame exposed at gable ends. Above collar level is unfinished attic with exposed collars and complete run of pegged rafters with visible lathes and straw.
Listed as an C18 farmhouse with the roof structure and timber wall frame essentially intact, as well as an additional layer of interest in the C19 gentrification seen in the brickwork and windows. The C20 addition to rear is not regarded as of special interest.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 493050
- 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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