Description

SHALDON
SX9271 HIGHER RINGMORE ROAD, Ringmore 25-1/8/11 (East side)
21/06/77 Pear Tree Cottage
GV II .
Farmhouse. Probably late C16. Limewashed cob, thatched roof with 2 ridge stacks, one to the left of the through passage, one to the left of the hall. 4-bay through-passage plan. EXTERIOR: single-storey with attic; 5-window range. The lower end to the right was destroyed by fire and is a C20 restoration. C20 door and latticed windows. Three 2-light casement windows to eye-browed half-dormers. 3-light casements to the ground floor. Thatched gabled porch to the right of centre.
INTERIOR: a staircase occupies the former through-passage. The room to the left of the door has an open fire with a C20 timber lintel backing onto the front of the passage. A massive chamfered crossbeam rests on a rough timber corbel and may be a C18 replacement. The joists are chamfered with roll stops. To the right a plank and muntin screen with a moulded cornice has a C20 door to a former inner room, now a kitchen. The 4-bay jointed-cruck collar-truss has scarfed joints to trenched purlins, and no evidence of former smoke blackening.

Listing NGR: SX9252671866

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559310

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper