Description

PICKERING STREET TQ 75 SE LOOSE (East Side) 3/199 Nos. 1 and 2 23.5.67 Peartree Cottage II

Farmhouse, now house pair. C15, with C17 and C18 alterations. Timber framed. First floor of cross-wing tile-hung, rest rendered. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 roughly equal-length bays, with left cross- wing projecting slightly to rear. Storeyed right end bay, also projecting to rear, and with short C20 single-bay addition to right. Cross-wing 2 storeys, main range 1½ storeys. Rendered plinth. Wing jettied, jetty returning to left on plain dragon post. Higher eaves to wing than to main range, with steeply-pitched hipped roof. Multiple brick ridge stack towards left end of hall, and ridge stack to right end of right storeyed bay. Pair of conjoined eaves dormers, to right hall bay and right storeyed bay, with eaves higher than eaves of cross-wing. Jettied gable to each dormer, with moulded bressumer, shaped brackets and carved bargeboards. Irregular fenestration of four windows; one 3-light casement to first floor of wing, one small hipped 2-light eaves dormer to left hall bay and one 16-pane sash to each large dormer (above hall wall-plate). No windows to right addition. 6-light mullioned window to ground floor of wing, 3-light casement to left end of hall, and one 16-pane sash beneath each dormer. Ribbed door to No. 1 under left stack and to No. 2 under right stack. Painted stone lean-to to left. Rear lean-to between wings. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing. Late C16 or early C17 stone stack with chamfered jambs, to left end of hall. Blocked cross-passage behind stack. Crown-post roof.

Listing NGR: TQ7654552484

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