Pear Tree Cottage and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House, agricultural building. 1 related planning application.
Pear Tree Cottage and Attached Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- blind-rafter-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House, agricultural building
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage and Attached Outbuildings, Hamsterley, DL13 3PU
- OS grid reference
- NZ 118 310
- Coordinates
- 54.67433, -1.81755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottage and its attached outbuilding are likely from the late 18th century. The structure features thin courses of rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings, topped with pantiled roofs and some stone-flagged eaves. The main block is two stories tall and has four bays, while the right extension is a single story with two bays.
The second bay contains a six-panel door, with the upper panels being glazed, set beneath a flat stone lintel. Similar lintels are found above boarded doors in the fourth bay and at the top of the side stone steps, which are positioned at a right angle to the elevation in the third bay. The first bay has late 19th-century sash windows with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills.
The right extension features a boarded Dutch door on the left and a small square boarded window beneath a thin wood lintel. There is also a boarded door with a flat stone lintel beneath an external stair. The main roof has stone eaves and a small chimney at the right end, while the left end of the ridge shows damage from a removed chimney. The return gables are accented with large triangular coping blocks.
Local climate
Pear Tree Cottage and Attached Outbuildings receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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