Pear Tree Cottage with attached wall and mounting block is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Cottage.

Pear Tree Cottage with attached wall and mounting block

WRENN ID
peeling-gutter-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 September 1982
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SS 967 690
Coordinates
51.41073, -3.48631
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pear Tree Cottage is a two-storey house built from local limestone rubble with creamwashed cladding. It features a Welsh late gable roof with eaves that are slightly lower than those of the adjacent Corner House, although the ridge level remains the same. The cottage has a central stack for a back-to-back chimney and an additional later stack on the north-east gable.

The front elevation has two window bays and a doorway located to the left of the centre. This is a single-depth house with a rear outshut. The windows are small 2-light wood casements with small panes, likely from the 19th century. There is also a 19th-century porch made of stone walls, topped with old slates on a hipped roof, and featuring an old wooden boarded door.

At the rear, there is a small contemporary outshut and a detached gabled outhouse. The area in front of the house is paved with cobbled setts, and the south-east garden is enclosed by a creamwashed stone rubble wall with stone coping. This wall returns to the porch on the west side and to the house on the east side. There are stone gate piers and a 19th-century iron gate adorned with scrolled and barley sugar twisted finials on circular uprights. Notably, on the south-east side, the wall is built around a stone mounting block with four steps.

The interior has not been inspected during the resurvey, but it is reported to have a ground floor room in the south-west with exposed joists and a small staircase near the main doorway. These details have been confirmed by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

Local climate

Pear Tree Cottage with attached wall and mounting block sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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