Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. House. 2 related planning applications.
Pear Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-basalt-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage, Park Lane, North Wraxall, SN14 8RN
- OS grid reference
- ST 842 748
- Coordinates
- 51.4727, -2.22848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, situated on North Iraxall Park Lane, Ford. The house is constructed of rubble stone and has a stone-tiled roof with coped gables and paired diagonal stacks on the south end. A saddlestone is present on the north end. It is a two-storey building.
The west front features a first-floor two-light mullion window with ovolo moulding. On the ground floor are a one-light cyma-moulded recessed mullion window, and two two-light recessed ovolo-mullion windows, all with hood moulds. The east side has a first-floor two-light flush bead-moulded window and a casement pair, a central blocked single light at half level, and a ground-floor two-light ovolo-moulded window to the left, and a single casement to the right. The south end wall has a dripcourse stepped over a first-floor two-light ovolo-mullion window. A plank door is located centrally, set within a moulded flush doorcase with a corniced hood. The house is said to contain a carved stone date of 1680.
Local climate
Pear Tree Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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