Description

SP 9452-9552
29/591

TURVEY,
HIGH STREET (south side),
Pear Tree Cottage

(Formerly listed as Box Cottage, HIGH STREET (S. side))

27.8.1987

GV II

Estate cottage, mid C19.

MATERIALS: Coursed limestone rubble. Old clay tile roof.

PLAN: 2-room plan.

EXTERIOR: Two storeys with gable end red brick chimney stacks. The N gable end to the road has bargeboards with moulded timber decoration and drop finials. It has a blocked window on the first floor and a 2-light casement with glazing bars on the ground floor. The W elevation has two 2-light casements with glazing bars on the first floor, a 3-light casement with glazing bars on the ground floor, and a central doorway with pedimented doorhood on two slender square piers. The E elevation has one 2-light and one single-light casement with glazing bars on the first floor, and a 2-light casement with glazing bars on the ground floor. On the S side there is a small single-storey brick extension which does not have special interest.

INTERIOR: Features of interest include original four-panelled doors and plank doors. On the first floor there is a fireplace with cast iron register grate and arch plate surround.

HISTORY: Pear Tree Cottage (formerly Box Cottage) and its outbuilding The Covey were built in the mid C19 as part of the estate of Turvey Abbey, which lies to the east. The Covey was at some time in use as a shop and a workshop. The buildings appear on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1883 and 1900. They form a group with similar mid C19 estate cottages at nos. 1-2 High Street and Nos. 1-10 Abbey Square.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION:
Pear Tree Cottage is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* It is a well-crafted mid C19 estate cottage, built from local materials in a vernacular style, with decorative touches in the bargeboarding
* It forms part of an important and coherent group of Turvey Abbey estate cottages in a similar style, all listed at Grade II

Listing NGR: SP9445952418

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567022

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)