Yew Tree Farmhouse
YEW TREE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058583
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- 1999-09-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/01539/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058583
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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 TREE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wookey
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 51696 45815
Details
ST54NW WOOKEY CP HIGH STREET (South side)
21/170 Yew Tree Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, now house. C15, altered C17, C20 exterior features. Rubble, double-Roman tile roof, coped verges, brick stacks. Open hall house, later floored with wing at right angles to right forming an L-plan. Single storey and attic, 2:2 bays, to left 2-light casements with leaded lights; to right 2 and 3-light casements, on first floor in gabled dormers with copings. Flat roofed rubble porch in the angle between the 2 wings, plank door, strap hinges; C20 inner door. Interior with 3-bay cruck roof; fireplace in moulded surrround, stone jambs, wooden lintol; ground floor ceiling with large square joists. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, August 1976).
Listing NGR: ST5169645815
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268183
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in August, (1976)
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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