Pear Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Farmhouse.

Pear Tree Farmhouse

WRENN ID
plain-gutter-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Pear Tree Farmhouse, Halstock
OS grid reference
ST 512 080
Coordinates
50.87012, -2.69447
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pear Tree Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dated 1737, as indicated by a stone tablet above the doorway. The building features rubble-stone walls with ashlar quoins and a Roman-tile roof, which was formerly thatched, topped with stone gable-copings. It has stone stacks with moulded cornices at the gable ends and stands two storeys tall with attics. The facade includes three windows on the ground floor, which have a continuous string-course above that steps up over the front doorway. The windows are hollow-chamfered stone mullions with renewed wood casements, consisting of three lights, except for the centre upper window, which has two lights. The front door, located at the centre, has recess panels and is a 20th-century addition.

Inside, there are open fireplaces at each end of the house, featuring dressed stone jambs and wood lintels. A half-spiral wood staircase is positioned in the corner next to the east end fireplace. The central hall is separated from the rooms by heavy plank-and-muntin partitioning. An attached outbuilding at the east end, dating from the 19th century, is constructed of rubble-stone with brick quoins and has a corrugated asbestos roof. This outbuilding is two storeys high and has one window with a brick-dressed wood casement.

Local climate

Pear Tree Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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