Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1987. House. 8 related planning applications.
Pear Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-pilaster-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage, Goatacre Lane, Hilmarton, SN11 9HY
- OS grid reference
- SU 021 768
- Coordinates
- 51.49052, -1.97086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottage is a 18th-century house located on Goatacre Lane in Hilmarton. It features painted brick construction and a thatched half-hipped roof with end stacks. The cottage has one and a half storeys and is adorned with leaded casement windows. There are two pairs of casement windows under eyebrows and one window with a cambered head on the ground floor to the right. The left side of the ground floor has two small windows, likely from the 20th century. The building has a rubble stone plinth, flush quoins, and some rubble stone in the end walls. The west end wall includes a gabled brick porch, while the east end has a 20th-century garage attached.
Local climate
Pear Tree Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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