Listed Building: PEAR TREE HOUSE (104948)

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

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