Pear Tree is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Cottage.
Pear Tree
- WRENN ID
- late-gravel-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pear Tree, Water Lane, Bures Hamlet
- OS grid reference
- TL 903 340
- Coordinates
- 51.97261, 0.76996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree is a 17th-century cottage located on the north side of Water Lane in Bures Hamlet. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It has two bays facing south and features an internal chimney stack against the rear wall. There is a single-storey flat-roofed extension at the back, which dates from the 20th century. The cottage is one storey high with attics and includes two 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century door. Each gable end displays one exposed rafter couple and a high collar, along with the ends of the wallplates and clasped purlins. Inside, there is a large wood-burning hearth that has been reduced for a 20th-century grate. The right bay has joists of vertical section arranged longitudinally, while the left bay features an axial beam with joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps.
Local climate
Pear Tree sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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