Pear Tree Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse.
Pear Tree Cottages
- WRENN ID
- former-solder-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottages, Coal Street, Wilby
- OS grid reference
- TM 233 710
- Coordinates
- 52.29197, 1.27365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottages is a former farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages. It dates back to the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century. A 20th-century lean-to addition is located on the left side. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof, and consists of two storeys in a three-cell layout. The right-hand cottage was modernised in 1985, featuring new panelled plasterwork and small-paned casement windows. It has an internal stack with a rebuilt shaft and an external stack dating from around 1700 on the left side. The first floor of the right-hand cottage appears to have been reconstructed at a higher level; except for the end bay, the joists are set on edge. There is an open truss with queen posts against the right of the stack, and two windows with ovolo mullions. The interior of the left-hand cottage and the roofspace have not been examined.
Local climate
Pear Tree Cottages 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
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