Pear Tree Farm House

TM 06 NW 4/103

WESTHORPE Pear Tree Farm House

II

House, latterly 2 or more dwellings. Late C16, extended and reroofed in C19, altered and extended C20. Timber frame, plastered, steeply pitched machine pantiled roof. 3 cell cross passage plan, extended by 1 bay to left or parlour end. 1 storey and attic. Entrance in original cross passage position; a half glazed door in a gabled porch, 2-light glazing bar casements and 3 gabled dormers, all C20. Rebuilt ridge stack with white brick dressings between hall and parlour. Left end C20 external stack. To rear 4 gabled dormers and a flat roofed outshut from parlour end. Right end lower weatherboarded and rendered C20 additions. Interior: original basket arched doorhead to rear of cross passage, mortice for screen which is positioned on lower side of passage, C17 and panelled with broad muntins; close studding, straight arched braces in walls; hall has a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and fireplace bressumer, altered framing; parlour has a cross axial binding beam and jowled storey posts. First floor frame concealed, roof renewed in C19.

Listing NGR: TM0389469841