Building record 1268000000 - PEAR TREE COTTAGE, POND APPROACH

Grade II. Pair of cottages, now all one. Early C18 with late C18/early C19 added wing; C20 alterations and additions. Red brick in Flemish bond, wing with blue headers; plain tile roofs. 2 storeys, 2 bays, with 2-bay wing added to rear left, added rear outshut in angle with wing, and 1960s additions to rear right and set back on right. Entrance elevation: flint and brick plinth. Board stable door at each end, that on left in 1960s open, gabled, porch. Two 2- light 1960s wooden casement windows to each floor with tile sills. Ground- floor openings have segmental header-brick arches. Platt band. Boxed eaves. Hipped roof with central ridge stack. Left return: front range is pebble- dashed and has platt bank returned from front. Wing: central small-pane glazed door flanked by blue-brick vertical panels, a 2-light window to left, and a 3-light window and end of iron tie-rod to right; two 2-light windows to 1st floor; ground-floor openings have segmental headed-brick arches; windows have small-pane glazing (apart from 1960s window to lst-floor left) and tile sills; stepped dentilled eaves; roof hipped at left end. Rear: wing has stepped eaves and lateral stack to inner return; 1960s rear addition and late C20 lean-to addition against wing are not of special interest. Interior: central chimney, with back-to-back fireplaces, retains large fireplace with timber bressumer in left-hand room, with old board cupboard doors on its right. Large-scantling cross-beam with wooden-pegged joists in left-hand room. Roof of main range has bridle-jointed, rafters and no ridge-piece; raking queen- strut roof truss at junction with wing which has plant ridge-piece. The building is reported to date to c.1704 and at one time to have been used as the village workhouse.(B1).