Pear Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Residential. 1 related planning application.
Pear Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-gravel-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Pear Tree Cottage, Great Street, Norton Sub Hamdon, TA14 6SG
- OS grid reference
- ST 470 158
- Coordinates
- 50.9397, -2.75537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pear Tree Cottage is a detached cottage dating from around 1700. It is constructed of roughly cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof, likely replacing an earlier thatched roof. The gables are plain, and there are two chimney stacks, one of yellow brick and one of stone. The cottage is positioned at a right angle to the road and has two storeys and three bays. It features hollow-chamfer mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses. A hood mould is above the lower window in the first bay, and the lower window in the third bay appears to have been heightened. The windows are rectangular-leaded with iron-traded opening lights; the upper windows are two-light and the lower windows are three-light. A chamfered, cambered-arched doorway, with a deeply lintolled label, is located in the second bay, leading to a 20th-century boarded door. The rear elevation includes an additional two-light window and a small stairlight. The interior was not inspected during the listing process.
Local climate
Pear Tree Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- 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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