Pear Tree Court

HARBERTON SX7856-SX7956 15/444 OLD ROAD, (EAST SIDE) HARBERTONFORD Pear Tree Court

GV II

House. Circa mid C19. Local slate and metamorphic stone rubble. Asbestos slate roof with gabled ends and bracketed eaves. Left hand (west) gable end asbestos slate hung first floor and attic. Plan: Double depth plan with entrance on left end to stair hall to rear left. The 2 principal front,rooms are now one room and separated from the smaller rear service rooms on the right by an axial passage. The main rooms are heated from gable end stacks. Single storey wing set back on right (east) end. Exterior: storeys and attic. All the windows in gable ends. Symmetrical 2-bay front with pointed arch window openings with voussoirs. 2-light casements of 8 panes per light and top lights with gothic pointed panes. Left hand gable end has doorway to left of centre with pointed arch fanlight with intersecting glazing bars and c20 panelled door. C20 glazed porch with tent-shaped slate roof. Single storey wing to right (east) set back; 3 windows plus doorway. Windows have pointed brick arches; 12-pane single-light casements with intersecting glazing bars in top lights. Doorway to right with similar fanlight above glazed door in pointed arch opening. Interior: Open well staircase with open string moulded handrail ramped up to column newels. Servants' stair at rear of opposite east end lead directly up to attic. Most of the original internal joinery has been replaced and the two principal rooms at the front have been converted into one room.

Listing NGR: SX7847756243