Yewtree House
YEWTREE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033226
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Yewtree House
- Statutory Address:
- YEWTREE HOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08312/32
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033226
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Yewtree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEWTREE HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- YEWTREE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earl Stonham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 09815 59922
Details
TM 05 NE
4/106
EARL STONHAM
FORWARD GREEN
Yewtree House
9-12-55
II*
House; early C15 with alterations of c.1600. A 3-cell open-hall house. 1
storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered; the C16 set-forward wing to
left has good cable-pattern pargetting in large panels. Half-hipped thatched
roof with axial and internal end chimneys of red brick. One gabled thatched
casement dormer. C19 small-pane casements. Two C18 or early C19 boarded
entrance doors. An unusually complete example of a medieval house: The
cross-entry has unaltered twin 4-centred arched service doorways and massive
rear 2-centred arched entrance doorway. From the cross-entry also leads the
original staircase of triangular blocks with clap-boarded partition. Complete
coupled-rafter roofs exposed in all 3 cells. Blocked open hall windows
leaving evidence for square mullions. Widely-spaced heavy studwork with
convex arched wind-bracing. The arch-braced tie beam has been removed from
the centre of the hall, and a heavy 1st floor structure with chamfered joists
inserted, together with a large chimney against the upper end of the hall, all
in late C16. A wing was added to the front of the parlour cell also in C16,
of 2 bays, with a cross-entry and end chimney. It is almost entirely of
reused medieval timber, some of which is of c.1300 or earlier. Both wall
plates have redundant notched-lap joints of this period, but the open truss is
probably later; it has a strongly cambered tie-beam with heavy chamfered
braces, both perhaps of C15 origin. Complete set of rafters from a coupled-
rafter roof.
Included as grade II* because a good and exceptionally little-
altered example of a rural C15 house.
Listing NGR: TM0981559922
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279355
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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