Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage.
Pear Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-lancet-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage, Audley End, Burston and Shimpling
- OS grid reference
- TM 141 827
- Coordinates
- 52.40128, 1.14606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottage is a late 17th century to early 18th century timber-frame cottage that has been rendered. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and a central brick chimney stack. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, which has windows in the gable ends. The front has two modern three-light casement windows and a central doorcase with pilasters that supports a glazed door. At the rear, there is a later lean-to addition.
Local climate
Pear Tree Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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