Peartree Cottage

Peartree Cottage is a pair of houses that was originally a farmhouse, dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The building is timber framed, with the first floor of the cross-wing tile-hung and the rest rendered. It features a plain tile roof. The open hall consists of two roughly equal-length bays, with the left cross-wing projecting slightly to the rear. The right end bay is storeyed and also projects to the rear, featuring a short 20th-century single-bay addition to the right. The cross-wing is two storeys high, while the main range is one and a half storeys.

The structure has a rendered plinth, and the wing jetties out, with the jetty returning to the left on a plain dragon post. The eaves of the wing are higher than those of the main range, and it has a steeply-pitched hipped roof. There is a multiple brick ridge stack towards the left end of the hall and another ridge stack at the right end of the storeyed bay.

The building has irregular fenestration with four windows: a three-light casement on the first floor of the wing, a small hipped two-light eaves dormer on the left hall bay, and a 16-pane sash window in each large dormer above the hall wall-plate. The right addition has no windows. The ground floor of the wing features a six-light mullioned window, a three-light casement on the left end of the hall, and a 16-pane sash beneath each dormer. There are ribbed doors to No. 1 under the left stack and to No. 2 under the right stack, along with a painted stone lean-to on the left and a rear lean-to between the wings.

The interior has only been partly inspected but includes exposed framing and a late 16th or early 17th-century stone stack with chamfered jambs at the left end of the hall, along with a blocked cross-passage behind the stack and a crown-post roof.