Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House.

Pear Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Pear Tree Cottage, Mellis Green
OS grid reference
TM 100 744
Coordinates
52.32819, 1.08165
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pear Tree Cottage is a house that was originally built in the early 18th century and later converted into two dwellings. It was extended in the 19th century and altered in the 20th century. The structure features a timber frame that is plastered, with some red brick and a clay lump addition. The roof is thatched, with pantiles on the addition.

The cottage consists of two cells, one storey and an attic, with a two-storey addition on the left side. It has an offset plinth and two entrances near the center: one is a four fielded panelled door and the other is a 20th-century half-glazed door. The windows are 20th-century three-light glazing bar casements with hoodboards, and there are two eyebrow thatched dormers with two lights. The right end of the building is entirely red brick and features an internal stack, while the left end has an external stack in the 19th-century bay that is slightly set back. This side has three-light casements, higher eaves, and a lower ridge, along with an internal white brick stack at the left end. At the rear, there is another eyebrow thatched dormer and a 20th-century addition.

Inside, the cottage has stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams and storey posts, with exposed framing made of thin scantling and curved tension braces.

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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