Yew Tree House
YEW TREE HOUSE, UPPER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185834
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE HOUSE, UPPER STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11267/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185834
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE HOUSE, UPPER STREET
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, UPPER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leeds
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 81976 52711
Details
LEEDS UPPER STREET TQ 85 SW (east side)
3/118 Yew Tree House GV II Hall-house, formerly house row, now house. Late C15 with late C16 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed, ground floor clad in red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond, first floor tile-hung. Late C15 open hall of 2 unequal bays, possibly with storeyed bay to left, now gone. Integral 2-bay cross-wing to right. Late C16 two-bay addition to right of cross-wing, parallel to road. 2 storeys. Roof over hall raised in C19 and gabled to junction with ridge of wing. Hip of wing continuous with slope of C19 roof and built up, probably in C19, with ridge parallel to road. C16 addition has steeper pitch, lower eaves, hipped to right with gablet. Late C16 red brick stack in front slope of roof at left end and early C19 stack to right side of wing. Irregular fenestration of two C19 first-floor casements. Four C19 ground-floor casements with segmental heads. Ribbed door in left end of C16 addition. Interior: Crown post to wing with 2 curved downward and 2 upward braces. Half of moulded dais beam survives carved with small shields alternately bearing portcullis, Tudor rose and George cross. Plain four-centred arched door- head beneath beam, spandrels carved with hammer to left and mallet pursing chisel to right. Tension braces. Large stone fireplace in left bay of hall with moulded jambs, one corbelled to top. Exposed timbers.
Listing NGR: TQ8197352712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173852
- 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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