Pear Tree Cottage Including East End of the Old Forge to the West is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. A C18 Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Pear Tree Cottage Including East End of the Old Forge to the West

WRENN ID
sacred-buttress-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Pear Tree Cottage Including East End of the Old Forge to the West, Aller Road, Dolton, EX19 8QP
OS grid reference
SS 572 122
Coordinates
50.89187, -4.03043
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pear Tree Cottage, which includes the east end of The Old Forge to the west, was originally one house but is now two cottages. It dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with a 20th-century addition. The building has rendered cob and rubble walls and a thatched roof that is gabled on the right side and hipped on the left end. There are brick stacks, one axial and one at the right gable end.

The structure is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has three windows arranged in a 1:2 pattern. The Old Forge features a late 20th-century two-light casement window, while Pear Tree Cottage has a regular front with early 20th-century four-pane sash windows. There is a central 20th-century glazed porch with a door. The interior does not display any early features, but some may be hidden.

Local climate

Pear Tree Cottage Including East End of the Old Forge to the West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2007
  • 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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