Yew Tree House
YEW TREE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1094478
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1094478
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE 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:
- YEW TREE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkley
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 74917 31062
Details
HAWKLEY EMPSHOTT GREEN SU 73 SW 4/8 Yew Tree House 23/01/86 II House. C16, C17, C18 and c.1900. Mixed walling; tile-hung front (with scalloped bands), brickwork in English bond, exposed framing bricknogged, small areas of coursed malmstone and boarding. Tile roof, hipped at the rear, with outshots, and gabled dormers. Late-medieval timber-framed hall with smoke bay, later filled with a massive stack and insertion of upper floor to produce a lobby-entrance dwelling, with staircase replaced by a C17 staircase block, which was absorbed within a large C17 timber-framed rear wing. South front of 2 storeys, 2 windows; plain roof with shafted stack, tile-hung walls, C20 casements, and plain doorway with hood on brackets. The west side, refaced and restored c.1900, embodies the rear wing, with an elevation of 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows; tile-hung south side gable, 2 gabled dormers, brick walls in English bond, casements, and open porch. Interior: the fireplaces have C16 chamfered stone surrounds (facing east) and C16 timber- bressummers (also chamfered with Tudor arched form) on the west side, the staircase has framing (possibly re-used) of Jacobean form, with crude newels, most of the framing being visible.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 143192
- 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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