Yew Tree Farnhouse

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

In the entry for:-

ST 56 SW BUTCOMBE

1816/6/10000 Yew Tree Farmhouse

II

the entry shall be amended to read:

ST 56 SW BUTCOMBE

1816/6/10001 Yew Tree Farmhouse

II

------------------------------------ The following building shall be added to the list:-

ST 56 SW BUTCOMBE

1816/6/10000 Yew Tree Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, now house. Roughly coursed limestone rubble with part-rendered wing, pantile roof, stone coped gable to right (SE) and stone ridge and right end stacks. T-plan with left-hand cross wing to NW: C15 three-bay open hall had stack and floor inserted in C17; through-passage to right of stack in lower end rebuilt as parlour wing in C17. Two storeys; 3-window range.

Timber lintels over C20 half-glazed door and casements; C19 two- light casement with turnbuckle to first-floor centre; cross wing projects to front and rear, with C19 lean-to to rear. Interior: noted as having 3-bay smoke-blackened cruck roof to hall with notched tenoned apex and in-line tenoned purlins; cruck to left obscured by inserted stack; ground-floor hall fireplace has arched chamfered bressumer and chamfered stone joints with oven to left possibly inserted into curing chamber. Parlour to right has scroll stops to chamfered ground-floor beam and first-floor fireplace; through-passage blocked to rear and retains head beam to front. Altered crude truss to cross wing. (Report for Vernacular Architecture Group by E H D Williams, 1991)

Listing NGR: ST5124161360

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0126 IOE Records taken by Peter Bassingham; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Peter Bassingham. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project