Pear Tree Farmhouse

ASHFIELD CUM THORPE TM 26 SW

5/1 Pear Tree Farmhouse - - II

Former farmhouse. C15 core with C16-C17 alteration. Wing to north added c.1985. Timber framed and plastered; roof clad in synthetic slates. 3-cell form. 1 1/2 storeys. Mid C20 casement windows. Cross-entry has mid C20 gabled porch with boarded and battened door. 3 flat-roofed dormers with standard small-paned windows. Internal stack with rendered shaft. Interior. Modernised. Some full-height studding, exposed mainly in the front wall. A pair of wallposts have blocked mortices for braces supporting the central truss over an open hall. Evidence for hall window. Stack inserted in upper end of hall, perhaps preceded by a timber flue. Inserted hall ceiling has heavy chamfered bridging beam, probably C16, not resting on wallposts. Joists concealed. Heavy plain square joists in parlour, trimmed for a stairtrap. Square-headed service doorways of late C16/early C17. The roof is a post- medieval replacement, probably C17.

Listing NGR: TM2121063198