Pear Tree Cottage

EAST BUDLEIGH HAYES LANE, East Budleigh SY 0684 8/73 Pear Tree Cottage - GV II Cottage including former shop. Probably C18, enlarged and refurbished in late C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or brick stacks; thatch roof. Originally a 2-room plan cottage with end stacks facing south-east. In C19 a 1-room extension containing a shop was built on left (south-western) end and the former end stack projects into this extension. 2 storeys. Irregular 5-window front of various C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars, a larger one ground floor left to the former shop. The original cottage 4-window section is more regular but not symmetrical and alternate first floor windows are blind. Both doors, one to the cottage and another to the former shop, are C20. The roof butts the neighbouring houses each end. The eaves drop abruptly and the ridge drops gently from cottage to former shop. Interior not available for inspection at time of survey. Pear Tree Cottage is one of a group of attractive thatched buildings. It is set back from the front of Brook Cottage (q.v.) adjoining to right but projects forward from Hill Farmhouse (q.v.) adjoining to left and is set on a different axis from both.

Listing NGR: SY0651384875