Peartree House is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1988. Farmhouse.

Peartree House

WRENN ID
silent-buttress-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Darlington
Constituency
Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Peartree House, Ketton Lane, Brafferton
OS grid reference
NZ 301 195
Coordinates
54.5699, -1.53491
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Peartree House is a farmhouse that was formerly divided into two dwellings, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It is constructed of squared limestone with sandstone dressings and features a renewed pantiled roof along with rebuilt brick chimney stacks. The building is designed in the Gothick style and is two stories high with three bays, accompanied by a set-back single-storey, two-bay wing on the right side. The garden front displays squared sandstone quoins and has a blocked central doorway. The windows, which have four-centred heads and projecting sills, still show remnants of the original paired sashes with pointed-arched upper lights. The house has a hipped roof and tall lateral stacks that rise from the centre of the returns. The wing has a blank front wall and a pitched roof, while the rear has been altered with doorways in the end bays. There is a 20th-century lean-to on the right return of the wing, which is not of special interest.

Local climate

Peartree House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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