Yew Tree Cottage
YEW TREE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172467
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172467
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE COTTAGE
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 COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tarrant Gunville
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 92193 13312
Details
TARRANT GUNVILLE ST 91 SW -
4/39 Yew Tree Cottage
GV II
Pair of cottages, now a single house, that to the south-east C17 or early C18, rebuilt C19 and that to the north-east late C18. Part roughcast, part ashlar and rubble, whitewashed. Part thatched and part slated. Brick stack between cottages. 2 storeys, 5 window range. 2-light C19 cast-iron casements with glazing bars, except to part of later range which has C20 timber replacements. Later cottage has central C20 glazed door under moulded stone lintel. Earlier cottage has part-glazed, panelled door said to be reset from a house in Wimborne.
Internal features: some chamfered beams. Open fireplace with segmental chamfered timber bressummer with cyma stops. Some internal doors have original wrought- iron hinges and fittings. The late C18 range may be constructed with materials reused from Eastbury House (qv) by Vanbuzgh largely demolished in 1775. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV, p.95, no.17.)
Listing NGR: ST9219313312
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103667
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 95
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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