Yew Trees
YEW TREES, LOWER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036517
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Trees
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREES, LOWER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036517
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Trees
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREES, LOWER ROAD
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:
- YEW TREES, LOWER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bratton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 91226 52666
Details
BRATTON LOWER ROAD ST 9152 (north side) 11/27 Yew Trees 11.9.68 GV II Detached house. Mid to late C18. Flemish bond brick, tiled mansard roof to right hand range, left hand range plain tiled, coped verges and gable end brick stacks. Two-storey, 3-window late C18 entrance front. Central 6-panelled door in panelled reveals with semi-circular fanlight and flat wooden hood on brackets, 20- pane sash either side. Plat band to first floor; three 12-pane sashes. Moulded stone cornice to plain brick blocking course. Three raking dormers with 6-pane sashes to lower pitch of mansard. Range attached to left, probably mid C18, has five 12-pane segmental-headed sashes, 3-brick plat band to first floor; two 9- pane sashes and three blocked sashes; two 6-pane sashes to segmental-headed dormers. Left return in good English bond brick has unusual diagonal brick buttresses with ogee swept copings. Interior not accessible at time of survey (May 1986). Front of house rebuilt following fire in 1789. Occupied by the Whitaker family till 1940; Jeffery Whitaker opened a school here c1740 which closed c1820. (M. Reeves, Sheep Bell and Ploughshare, 1978)
Listing NGR: ST9122652666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313664
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Reeves, M, Sheep Bell and Ploughshare, (1978)
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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