Pear Tree Cottage

Pear Tree Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one building. It dates from the early 18th century, with an added wing from the late 18th or early 19th century, and has undergone alterations and additions in the 20th century. The structure is made of red brick in Flemish bond, with the wing featuring blue headers, and it has plain tile roofs.

The building is two storeys high and consists of two bays, with a two-bay wing added to the rear left. There is also an added rear outshut at the angle with the wing, along with 1960s additions to the rear right that are set back. The entrance elevation features a flint and brick plinth, with a boarded stable door at each end; the left door is in a 1960s open gabled porch. Each floor has two 2-light wooden casement windows from the 1960s, complete with tile sills. The ground-floor openings have segmental header-brick arches, and there is a platt band and boxed eaves. The roof is hipped with a central ridge stack.

On the left return, the front range is pebble-dashed, and the platt bank continues from the front. The wing has a central small-pane glazed door flanked by blue-brick vertical panels, a 2-light window to the left, and a 3-light window with an end iron tie-rod to the right. There are two 2-light windows on the first floor, and the ground-floor openings have segmental headed-brick arches. The windows feature small-pane glazing, except for the 1960s window on the first floor to the left, and have tile sills. The eaves are stepped and dentilled, and the roof is hipped at the left end.

At the rear, the wing has stepped eaves and a lateral stack on the inner return. The 1960s rear addition and a late 20th-century lean-to addition against the wing are not considered of special interest.

Inside, there is a central chimney with back-to-back fireplaces. The left-hand room retains a large fireplace with a timber bressumer and old board cupboard doors to its right. There is a large-scantling cross-beam with wooden-pegged joists in the left-hand room. The roof of the main range features bridle-jointed rafters without a ridge piece, and there is a raking queen-strut roof truss at the junction with the wing, which has a plant ridge piece. The building is reported to date to around 1704 and was once used as the village workhouse.