Pear Tree Cottages

A pair of cottages situated on an important corner site, likely dating back to the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. The cottages are timber framed and clad in weatherboard, topped by a red plain tiled roof. A central chimney stack, now incorporating a 20th-century fireplace, is plastered. The two-storey main body of the cottages has single-storey lean-to extensions to the right and left. They feature a three-window facade of small-paned casement windows, each with a fanlight above. Simple surrounds frame the doorways, which are each topped with flat canopies supported by brackets. A 20th-century gable on brackets sits above the right-hand doorway. A vertically boarded door serves the left-hand lean-to, and a window is visible in the right-hand lean-to. Internally, the cottages retain stop-chamfered bridging joists, jowled storey posts on the ground floor, and a staircase encircling the chimney stack. Original ironmongery is present on the vertically boarded doors.