Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1988. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
Pear Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-granite-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1988
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage, Rose Lane, Wickham Skeith, IP23 8LU
- OS grid reference
- TM 093 691
- Coordinates
- 52.28074, 1.06753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottage is a house that was formerly two cottages, likely built in the 17th century using earlier timbers and later remodeled in the 18th century. It underwent renovations in the mid-20th century, including a rear addition from the 1970s. The cottage is timber framed and rendered, with a pantiled roof. It consists of two cells and has two storeys. The windows are mid-20th century casements with square-leaded panes, and the entrance features a boarded door with a gabled hood. The chimney stack was rebuilt in the mid-20th century.
Inside, there are two bays to the right of the stack, featuring heavy main posts with deep jowls and good studding, which shows evidence of former diamond-mullioned windows. The section against the stack is framed as an end wall and has signs of an upper window. There is a cambered open tie beam with missing braces. The ground floor has a ceiling with chamfered joists and a massive floor beam. The left cell has plain studding and a lower quality floor with irregular on-edge joists. The chimney stack is made of large bricks, likely from the later 18th century. The roof has side purlins with plank wind bracing, although most of the timbers are concealed.
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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- 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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