Peartree Farmhouse

This is a late 16th-century house, originally a farmhouse, located on Clopton Grundisburgh Road. It is timber-framed with a plaintile roof and has a three-cell plan, incorporating a screens passage and a ground-floor hall.

The front of the house has 19th-century windows. A projecting wing extends to the right, with a lean-to outshut to its left. A 6-panel door, with a gabled 19th-century porch supported on brackets, is located to the left of the projecting wing. To the right of the door is a 3-light ground-floor casement, and to the left, a single-light bay window with a lean-to roof, with a 2-light 20th-century casement at the far left. Three 2-light casements are visible on the first floor. A single-flue ridge stack is situated on the right, and an axial stack with two flues, a moulded string, and fillet pieces is located on the left. The left-hand gable end has a ground-floor lean-to and a 2-light first-floor casement.

At the rear, a projecting gabled wing is situated on the left with a 2-light 19th-century ground-floor casement and a 2-light 20th-century first-floor casement. In the re-entrant angle is a lean-to porch, likely of 17th-century origin, though the bressumer is probably a 19th-century replacement with ribs and lambs-tongue end stops. To the right is a ground-floor oriel of 2 lights with a lean-to roof, and above it a 2-light casement at first-floor level.

The interior includes a screens passage with moulded muntins and continuous cross rails. The hall has been divided by a further screen to create a drawing room and a passageway. The drawing room features 18th-century painted pine panelling with raised and fielded panels, fluted pilasters attached to or carved into wall posts, bracketed jowls supporting a chamfered ceiling beam. A Bolection moulded fire surround is present together with a raised and fielded overmantel panel with fluted pilasters. Chamfered ceiling beams and close-studded walling are found in other ground-floor rooms. A timber-framed dairy has been added. A winder staircase leads to the first floor and up to the attics. Close-studded walling and chamfered ceiling beams are visible on the first floor. The roof features staggered purlins, and one truss incorporates queen posts.