Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Pear Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-niche-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage, Quarry Hill, Box, SN13 8LQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 828 686
- Coordinates
- 51.41638, -2.24871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottage is a late 17th-century house, fronted with ashlar and featuring a stone-tiled roof, coped gables, and end wall stacks. The building is two and a half storeys high and double-fronted, with two coped dormer gables. A dripcourse runs above the ground floor, and a moulded plinth is present. The windows are ovolo-moulded recessed mullion windows with casements. These include two two-light windows with hoodmoulds to the dormer gables, two three-light windows with hoodmoulds to the first floor, and two three-light windows to the ground floor. A 20th-century door is centrally positioned within a moulded flush surround and a hood supported by brackets. A stone-tiled extension to the right features a coped gable and one two-light flush mullion window. A rear north-east wing is also present, with a coped gable.
Local climate
Pear Tree Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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