The Yews
THE YEWS, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226345
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Yews
- Statutory Address:
- THE YEWS, EAST STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226345
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Yews
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE YEWS, EAST 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:
- THE YEWS, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Martock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4648419293
Details
The Yews, East Street
12/250
9/250
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ST4619
MARTOCK CP
EAST STREET (South side)
12/250
The Yews (Formerly listed as Yews Farmhouse)
19.4.61
GV
II
Farmhouse. C17, with medieval fragments. Ham stone ashlar facade, cut and squared stone to sides and rear; Welsh slate
roof between stepped coped gables: brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 wide bays. Outer bays have
2-light architraved plain mullioned windows of C18, but bay 2 has a 2-storey gabled bay window angled with 1+3+1 light
hollow chamfer in ovolo mould recess mullioned windows, the gable having shaped kneelers and gabletted finial to
copings: between bays 2 and 3 an earlier C19 part-glazed flush panel door in architraved recess having matching timber
panelled reveals. Interior not seen, but reported is a 3 room cross passage plan, with main fireplace backing on to
cross passage, and a plain chamfer mould panelled ceiling to present hall: in roof the remains of a true cruck truss
and one purlin, smoke blackened with square set ridge over saddle apex. To east gable of house a long wing wall with
plain gateway: to west gable a long barn building with throughway next to the house, these both in cut and squared
stonework, the barn having a corrugated iron roof on steel trusses. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, November 1976).
Listing NGR: ST4648419293
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423584
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in November, (1976)
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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