Yew Tree Cottages
YEW TREE COTTAGES, 2, HEMBRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259192
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE COTTAGES, 2, HEMBRIDGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259192
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE COTTAGES, 2, HEMBRIDGE
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 COTTAGES, 2, HEMBRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Pennard
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Pennard
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58883 36676
Details
ST 53 NE EAST PENNARD HEMBRIDGE
1594/6/10001 No.2
Yew Tree Cottages
II
House. Circa late C15, remodelled circa late C16 or early C17; altered C19 and NE end [now separate house] rebuilt in C20. Coursed limestone. Corrugated sheet steel roof with stone coping to gable end. Red brick small gable end stack. PLAN: The hall and inner room of a late Medieval house; the hall was floored and an axial stack inserted at the low end in about the late C16 or early C17; the inner room was probably originally unheated and has a chamber over. The front wall has been raised and the house largely refenestrated in the C18 and C19. The low NE, service, end was rebuilt in the mid C20 and is now a separate house. EXTERIOR: 2 storey. 2-window south east front with casement windows, 3-light casements on ground floor and smaller 2-light casements above, all with horizontal glazing bars; doorway on left with plank door. At rear [NW] , lower eaves, blocked opening on right and old 2-light wooden mullion window with bead mouldings, remains of iron casement and internal wooden shutter. Later single storey outshut on SW end with lean-to roof. INTERIOR: Inner room has two unchamfered axial beams and flagstone floor. Plastered partition between inner room and hall. Hall has 6-panel framed ceiling with deeply-chamfered intersecting beal11S and moulded stone fireplace with a cambered arch. Joinery includes panelled and plank doors. The original roof structure comprises two raised or jointed cruck-trusses with cambered collars, the hall truss with chamfered arch-braces, the hall chamber/solar truss is a closed truss; two tiers of purlins and chamfered curved wind-braces. The chambers are now ceiled, but over the hall the underside of the common-rafters and original thatch is smoke-blackened.
Listing NGR: ST5888336676
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463165
- 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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