Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Pear Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-tower-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage, 153, Bedford Road, Wootton, MK43 9BA
- OS grid reference
- TL 008 460
- Coordinates
- 52.10402, -0.52878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottage is an 18th-century timber-framed house located on the west side of Bedford Road in Wootton. The exterior is colourwashed roughcast, and the roof is tiled with pantiles. The house originally comprised three bays, although the right-hand bay is a later addition. It is two storeys in height. The first floor has two three-light casement windows and one two-light casement window, all with glazing bars. The ground floor has three two-light casement windows. A flat-roofed porch, dating to the 20th century, has been added to the front.
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 95% 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 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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