Pear Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Farmhouse.
Pear Tree House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-parapet-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Pear Tree House, Laxfield Road, Fressingfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 278 748
- Coordinates
- 52.324, 1.3422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree House is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, featuring a three-cell main range and an early 17th-century two-cell cross-wing that is set forward to the left. The building is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, and the gable end of the main range is finished in colourwashed brick. It has a thatched roof and stands two storeys high with attics. The house includes various casement windows, most of which are old, along with some mid-20th-century reproduction windows that have diamond-leaded glass. The cross-wing features several windows with diamond and chamfered mullions, likely added during the mid-20th century restoration. There is a lobby entrance with a mid-20th-century gabled porch that is now blocked, and a mid-20th-century plank door to the left, which is within an open timber porch. Each range has an internal stack, with the one in the cross-wing rebuilt in a sawtooth form during the mid-20th century. The parlour end of the main range showcases ovolo-moulded bridging beams. Additionally, there are remains of a medieval moat on the property.
Local climate
Pear Tree House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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