Pear Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. House. 4 related planning applications.

Pear Tree House

WRENN ID
spare-buttress-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
House
Address
Pear Tree House, Piddletrenthide, DT2 7QG
OS grid reference
SY 705 997
Coordinates
50.79657, -2.41926
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pear Tree House is a house from the 16th century that was remodeled in the 19th century. It features a combination of banded flint and rubble, with the upper floor made of banded brick and flint. The building has rubble quoins and a gable-ended thatched roof with brick stacks at each end. It is 1½ storeys tall and has a three-window range. The ground floor includes three-light casements with full glazing bars on the right and horizontal glazing bars on the left. The upper floor has two-light casements with glazing bars. There is a central door from the 20th century.

Inside, notable features include an open fireplace with a chamfered surround and a four-centred head made from reused altar-stone, which has five incised consecration crosses. There is an end newel stone stair accessed through a doorway with a four-centred head, and an upper doorway with a four-centred head and continuous jambs. The upper fireplace has a moulded four-centred head with carved initials in the spandrels, and the ceilings are adorned with deep chamfered intersecting beams.

Local climate

Pear Tree House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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