Description

SE 7287-7387 APPLETON-LE-MOORS VILLAGE STREET
(west side)

3/7 Pear Tree Cottage

GV II

House and outbuilding; now house. Early C18; raised and altered later.
Coursed limestone; sandstone quoins and dressings; pantile roof; rebuilt
brick stacks. Originally 2-cell, gable-entry plan, extended later into
outbuildings to left. 1½-storey, 3-window front. Central panelled double
doors. 3-light horizontal sliding sash with glazing bars to right; blocked
fire window at end right. 2 16-pane sahes to left of door. Upper windows
are 2-light, large-pane, horizontal sliding sahes under thin timber
lintels. All lower openings have keyed lintels. Interior: quarter-round
moulded beams throughout ground floor. In room to right C18 wall panelling
survives intact. Also ogee-topped, chamfered bressumer over stone fireplace
with corbelled-out moulded lintel, and stone bench against the neck.
Cupboards with 6-panel doors flank the fireplace. The firehood survives in
the first floor room to right. Studded partitions throughout first floor.

Listing NGR: SE7350787863

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26602258

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)