Peartree Cottage

This is a house, likely dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed of painted rubble with slate sills and wooden lintels, topped with a scantle slate roof. A brick chimney survives over the right-hand gable end, and a further scantle roof is present at a lower level. A large external chimney breast is visible at the left-hand gable end.

The original plan comprised two rooms – a larger kitchen/living room to the left and a parlour to the right, with an entrance vestibule or cross passage between. A single-storey room, originally possibly a fish cellar, was added to the right and converted in the 20th century to extend the living accommodation. The house is built into a bank and alongside the road at an angle to the rear.

The front of the house, facing west, has two storeys and features an irregular three-window arrangement for the original part of the house and a single-window arrangement for the single-storey addition on the right. Ground floor window openings are wider, containing 12-pane two-light casements. A doorway is situated almost adjoining the right-hand window and features a likely original two-panel door, sheltered by a slate roofed hood supported on rustic wooden posts. Regularly spaced square window openings with original 12-pane horizontal sliding sash windows are present on the first floor.

The rear of the house has a doorway to the left of the middle, along with a ledged door and an 19th-century 18-pane fixed light window adjoining it. An original 12-pane horizontal sliding sash window is located towards the right. These doorways and the window were inserted when the south chamber was converted to a shop in the 19th century.

The interior was not inspected. The house appears to have undergone little alteration since the 19th century and occupies a prominent position at the head of the creek.