Yew Trees

YEW TREES, 30, ST JOHNS ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1111527
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
Yew Trees
Statutory Address:
YEW TREES, 30, ST JOHNS ROAD

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1111527
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
Yew Trees
Statutory Address 1:
YEW TREES, 30, ST JOHNS 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
YEW TREES, 30, ST JOHNS ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Tendring (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TM 17452 16523

Details

CLACTON-ON-SEA ST. JOHN'S ROAD, TM 1716 GREAT CLACTON (north side) 13/27 No. 30. Yew Trees. II House. C18 with later rear additions. Timber framed and rough rendered with batten decoration. Parapet. Red plain tiled roof with 2 gabled dormers. Rear wings. Central and rear red brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys and attics. 3 window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. Central C19 hipped weatherboarded porch. 4 panelled 2 light door, moulded pilasters with moulded capitals and bases, urn and swag decoration to frieze, moulded corner patera, dentilled cornice. Internally, the frame is complete with arched through bracing and pegged side purlin roof. Some original vertically boarded doors with ironmongery. Chamfered bridging joists. The house appears to be one of the few larger homes in Great Clacton not associated with a farm but built for and occupied by a local man, Daniel Prentice. It was freehold and not copyhold of the manor. "Historical Notes on Yew Trees", Kenneth Walker, 1975.

Listing NGR: TM1745216523

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
119887
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
Walker, Kenneth , Historical Notes on Yew Trees, 1975,

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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