Yew Tree House and Yew Tree Cottage
YEW TREE HOUSE AND YEW TREE COTTAGE, THORPE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1132509
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House and Yew Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE HOUSE AND YEW TREE COTTAGE, THORPE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1132509
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House and Yew Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE HOUSE AND YEW TREE COTTAGE, THORPE LANE
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 AND YEW TREE COTTAGE, THORPE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cawood
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 57631 37638
Details
SE 5737 CAWOOD THORPE LANE (east side)
9/26 Yew Tree House and Yew Tree Cottage 17.11.66
- II *
House and stables, now 2 dwellings. Mid-late C17 with C18 stables and C19 and C20 additions. Long and narrow red brick with ashlar dressings and pantile roof. 3-cell lobby-entry plan with 2-storey porch. To rear, 2-storey stair turret with original 2-low-storey outshut raised in C20 to right, and to left C19 2-storey outshut joining house to stable block. 2 storeys, 3 first floor windows. Porch between second and third windows has segmental arch to ground floor; studded 3-panel door under moulded brick pediment. 16-pane sashes with ashlar cills project into moulded brick first floor band, similar sashes to first floor break further band above. 12-pane Yorkshire sash under flat brick arch to first floor of porch. Stepped ridge stack and stack with 2 diagonal shafts in left gable. Dutch gable ends. Left gable has first floor 4-pane Yorkshire sash and blocked cavetto mullion window both under flat brick arches. Partly blocked 2-light mullion window in gable. Yorkshire sliding sashes and tripartite sash to right gable. Moulded first floor band and band above first floor windows continue round both gables. Interior: ovolo-moulded beams to ceilings in some ground floor rooms. Ovolo moulded bressummer beam over fireplace to central room. Sliding shutters to some ground floor rooms.
Listing NGR: SE5763137638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 325887
- 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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