Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1990. Cottage.
Pear Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-lead-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage, Clacton Road, Mistley
- OS grid reference
- TM 123 286
- Coordinates
- 51.91589, 1.08645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage that has been refenestrated in the 20th century. It is a two-bay cottage, likely originally designed with a lobby entrance. The structure is oak framed and covered in roughcast over weatherboarding, topped with a tiled roof and a 20th-century brick chimneystack. The cottage has one storey and attics, featuring two windows, a 20th-century gabled dormer, two casement windows, and a plank door. The side elevation also has two casement windows, while the rear has a catslide roof. A 20th-century link block and rear wing are not of special interest.
Inside, the cottage displays an exposed rear wall with upright posts that have a typical cut profile, diagonal braces, and carpenter's marks. One room contains an axial beam with a one-inch chamfer, a 18th-century three-plank door with hinges, and a probable 17th-century three-plank door with an L hinge leading to the winder staircase. The first floor features exposed framing with some carved wind braces and old floorboards, which may include reused elements from the cottage's history.
Local climate
Pear Tree Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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