Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Pear Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-banister-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage, Brook Lane, Dean and Shelton, PE28 0NG
- OS grid reference
- TL 045 676
- Coordinates
- 52.29713, -0.46868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottage is a late 17th or early 18th century cottage situated on the west side of Dean and Shelton Brook Lane, Upper Dean. The building is constructed with colour-washed rough cast and brick on a timber frame, and has an old clay tile roof. Features include red brick ridge and integral south gable end stacks and tiled coping to the south gable end. The cottage has a 3-bay plan over two storeys, with four 2-light casements to the ground floor and three 2-light casements to the first floor, all dating to the 20th century. A front door is located in the north gable end and is topped by a hood supported on moulded wood brackets.
Local climate
Pear Tree Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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