Yew Tree Cottage

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SX 48 SW MARY STOW DIPPERTOWN

6/167 Yew Tree Cottage - II*

House. Medieval origins with C16 and C17 alterations, C20 renovations. Whitewashed stone rubble with late C20 concrete tile roof, formerly thatched, gabled at ends. 3 stone stacks: 1 at each gable end, 1 on ridge. A 2-bay open hall house, the lower end divided from the through passage by a tall solid partition wall. The lower end may have been ceiled over before the hall, the hall ceiled over in the C17 when a stack was inserted backing on to the through passage. The gable end stack to the lower room is also inserted, probably in the late C17. The inner room has been entirely rebuilt at first floor level and re-roofed. C20 roof added above the hall roof. 2 storeys. 5-window front with scattered fenestration. A C20 gabled porch leads into the through passage, a stone relieving arch immediately to the right of the porch marks the original through passage entrance, which is blocked. 1 C20 ground floor single tier bow window, all other windows 1- 2- and 3-light C20 casements with leaded panes under timber lintels, probably preserving the original embrasures. Rear doorway to through passage blocked. Interior: of the medieval house 2 massive unmoulded arch braced smoke-blackened trusses with wind braces survive, truncated above the square-set purlins. The principals are raised crucks. An ogee-headed timber doorway from the passage to the lower end is under a now concealed relieving stone arch above the level of the first floor. This doorway, and a similar blocked doorway to the rear of the through passage are probably C15. Over the lower end the 2 trusses are chamfered, the chamfer continuing over the cambered collar, trusses formerly had trenched purlins. These trusses do not appear to be smoke-blackened, although staining from timber treatment makes this difficult to decide, and may have been the roof to a solar over the lower end, or may predate the ceiling over of the lower end. The masive C17 hall fireplace has granite jambs, the left-hand jamb altered to accommodate a brick bread oven which no longer exists, but which formerly projected into the passage. The unmoulded timber lintel of the fireplace is unusual, projecting out as a rough corbel which supports an axial timber pad below the cross beam. The joists are chamfered with ogee stops. A timber newel stair to the left of the fireplace may be an early C18 replacement of the original stair, although the newel post appears to predate the steps. A Caernarvon arched doorway with scratch moulding leads from the hall into the inner room which has a massive axial beam and exposed joists, mostly replaced. The lower end room has 1 probably C16 axial beam with a deep chamfer and run-out stops, and a circa mid to late C17 chamfered fireplace lintel with ogee stops, jambs rebuilt. The ceiling of the lower end room cuts across the ogee-head of the doorway into the through passage. A high status medieval open hall house, formerly part of the Sydenham Estate.

Listing NGR: SX4286384654

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