Description

SY 79 NW PIDDLETRENTHIDE PIDDLETRENTHIDE VILLAGE (EAST SIDE)

12/217 26-1-56 Pear Tree House GV II

House, C16, remodelled C19. Banded flint and rubble with upper floor in banded brick and flint. Rubble quoins. Gable-ended thatched roof with end brick stacks. 1½ storeys, 3 window range. Ground floor has 3-light casements with full glazing bars to the right and horizontal glazing bars to the left. The upper floor has 2-light casements with glazing bars. Central C20 door. Internal features (RCHM): open fireplace with chamfered surround and 4-centred head cut from reused altar-stone with 5 incised consecration crosses; end newel stone stair entred through doorway with 4-centred head; upper doorway with 4-centred head and continuous jambs; upper fireplace with moulded 4-centred head with carved initials in the spandrels; ceilings with deep chamfered, intersecting beams. RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 217, no 10.

Listing NGR: SY7054899752

External Links

• Wikidata Q26591327

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)