Yew Tree House Yew Tree Post Office Yew Trees
YEW TREE HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087331
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House Yew Tree Post Office Yew Trees
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
- 2005-04-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/13879/11
- Rights:
- © Mr Adrian Allchin. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087331
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House Yew Tree Post Office Yew Trees
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- YEW TREE POST OFFICE, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- YEW TREES, CHURCH 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 HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE POST OFFICE, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREES, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Beetham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 49580 79533
Details
SD 4979 BEETHAM CHURCH STREET (South side) Beetham
9/40 Yew Tree Post Office, Yew Tree House and Yew Trees. (Formerly listed as Yew Trees and Post 12.2.62 Office Cottage)
G.V II
Terrace of 2 houses and former outbuilding now Post Office. Houses C18. Post Office has initials and date I 1881 T on door lintel, but ground floor appears earlier with upper floor probably added in C19. Limestone rubble walls with roughly-dressed limestone quoins and window surrounds to ground floor. Graduated greenslate roof. 2 storeys. 3 bays to each house, one bay to Post Office. Post Office: heavy studded boarded door with decorative iron hinges to left of shop window with pointed-arched head, fixed glazing bars and inserted letter-box; loading bay with board door under bracketed gabled slate canopy above. Yew Tree House: central 6-panelled door, in eared architrave with keystone under segmental pediment on consoles, flanked by C19 sashes with glazing bars. C18 sashes with glazing bars in stone surrounds above, those to central window moulded. Yew Trees: similar to Yew Tree House but door architrave ramped and has rosette in place of keystone. 3 chimney stacks and stone parapet and kneeler to right hand gable. Very important group at centre of Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: SD4958079536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76587
- 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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