Yew Tree Cottage
YEW TREE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182924
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2000-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/00704/08
- Rights:
- © Mr B.J.W. Heath. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182924
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1979
- 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:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Overton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 13037 68046
Details
SU 16 NW WEST OVERTON VILLAGE CENTRE (north side) 9/152 Yew Tree Cottage 21.2.79 II House. C17 and early C19. Timber framed with colourwashed brick noggings. Stone, and extended in brick. Thatched roof. Original building on left, single storey and attic, 3 bays comprising 2 framed bays with gable stack on right forming a third stone bay, a living hall and two inner rooms in left bay. Building extended beyond stack by further 2-storey 3 bays in late C18-early C19. Framing 3 panels high on stone sill, with wavy corner braces. Entrance lateral to centre hall bay, a 6 panel beaded door with simple canopy. Canted bay to right, and patterned leadwork to parlour window on left. The extension is symmetrical about a central half-glazed door with thatched canopy and flanking canted bay windows. First floor 9-pane single hung sashes. Rear wing on right has hipped roof. Stack of ribbed C17 brick, rebuilt at top.
Listing NGR: SU1303768046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311404
- 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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