Description

ST 50 NW
1/70
4.12.51

HALSTOCK
HIGHER HALSTOCK LEIGH
Pear Tree Farmhouse

II

Detached Farmhouse. Dated H. S-A 1737 on stone tablet over the doorway.
Rubble-stone walls and ashlar quoins. Roman-tile roof, (formerly thatch)
with stone gable-copings. Stone stacks with moulded cornices at gable ends.
Two storeys and attics. 3 windows, ground floor windows have a continuous
string-course over, stepped up, over front doorway. Hollow-chamfered stone
mullions, with wood casements, renewed. Windows of 3-lights, except centre
upper of 2 lights. Front door at centre, with recess-panels, C20. Interior:
open fireplace in each end with dressed stone jambs and wood lintel. Half-spiral
wood staircase in corner beside east end fireplace. Central hall, with heavy
plank-and-muntin partitioning, dividing it off from rooms. Attached outbuilding
at east end C19, rubble-stone with brick quoins. Corrugated asbestos roof.
Two storeys. One window, brick-dressed wood casement. (RCHM Dorset I, p.122(16))

Listing NGR: ST5122908078

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26591053

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living