Description

ASHFIELD CUM THORPE
TM 26 SW

5/1 Pear Tree Farmhouse
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- II

Former farmhouse. C15 core with C16-C17 alteration. Wing to north added
c.1985. Timber framed and plastered; roof clad in synthetic slates. 3-cell
form. 1 1/2 storeys. Mid C20 casement windows. Cross-entry has mid C20 gabled
porch with boarded and battened door. 3 flat-roofed dormers with standard
small-paned windows. Internal stack with rendered shaft. Interior.
Modernised. Some full-height studding, exposed mainly in the front wall. A
pair of wallposts have blocked mortices for braces supporting the central
truss over an open hall. Evidence for hall window. Stack inserted in upper
end of hall, perhaps preceded by a timber flue. Inserted hall ceiling has
heavy chamfered bridging beam, probably C16, not resting on wallposts. Joists
concealed. Heavy plain square joists in parlour, trimmed for a stairtrap.
Square-headed service doorways of late C16/early C17. The roof is a post-
medieval replacement, probably C17.

Listing NGR: TM2121063198

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26635479

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)