Listed Building record MDO10407 - Pear Tree House, Piddletrethide

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.

Pear Tree Cottage (SY 70549976) is single-storeyed with attics and walls of banded flint and coursed rubble with thatched roofs. The present cottage was built in the second half of the 16th century but the records of tenancy extend back to the beginning of the same century. The building is of interest in that its history is well documented and it retains an unusual number of original features. In 1506 and 1771 the property was regarded by its owners, Hyde Abbey and Winchester College, as two tenements; therefore it is liekly that it was built as two dwellings with a common through-passage. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 217 (Monograph). SDO136.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454816 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 21 2023 10:43AM