Pear Tree Cottage Bruton, England
Listed Building Data
Pear Tree Cottage has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1346182
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 29 August 1984
- Name
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE
- Location
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE
- Parish
- Bruton
- District
- South Somerset
- County
- Somerset
- Grid Reference
- ST 66074 34897
- Easting
- 366074.0000
- Northing
- 134897.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
BRUTON CP ST63SE WYKE CHAMPFLOWER 5/212 Pear tree Cottage II
Detached cottage. C17 modified. Local stone rubble; double Roman clay tiles between coped gables; brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays. Aluminium windows replacing sashes; C20 porch between bays 2 and 3, with dormer window in roof over. Single storey extension to North West gable. Fireplace in East room has timber beam with date 1633 cut in and a stopped chamfer beam spins the ceiling; arched collar trusses to roof. Formerly house of the Amos family; one timber emigrated in C17 to the USA became wealthy and endowed Bruton Church, Williamsburg, Virginia: now place of pilgrimage for American branch of Amos family. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972; Guide to St. Mary's Church, Bruton).
Listing NGR: ST6607434897
