Pear Tree Cottage the Keep is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1973. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Pear Tree Cottage the Keep
- WRENN ID
- fallow-shingle-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage the Keep, Berkhamsted Place, HP4 1HQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 990 087
- Coordinates
- 51.76856, -0.56544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Keep, also known as Pear Tree Cottage, is a 16th-century building with later additions. It originally served as a gardener’s cottage attached to Berkhamsted Place. The construction is a mix of flint and rubble, with some red brickwork and timber framing. The exterior walls display varied construction techniques. Later extensions were added in the late 17th or early 18th century, also built of flint rubble with brick facing. The cottage is two storeys high with attics, and has a tiled roof with two gabled dormers. Exposed timberwork is visible inside.
Local climate
Pear Tree Cottage the Keep sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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