Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Pear Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-rubblework-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage, Spelsbury, OX7 3LB
- OS grid reference
- SP 341 223
- Coordinates
- 51.89855, -1.50503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottage is a small house, likely originally subdivided, dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels, and has an artificial stone-slate roof with rebuilt rubble gable stacks. The building follows a two-unit plan, with an attached outshut to one side. The house has two storeys and an attic. The front elevation, featuring three windows, has two-light casement windows on the first floor. On the ground floor, there are two two-light windows to the left of a 20th-century porch, and a three-light window to the right. Traces of blocked doorways are visible on both sides of the house. The roof has two gabled dormers. An outshut extends to the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Pear Tree Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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