Yew Tree Farmhouse
YEW TREE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264487
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2002-10-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/08308/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264487
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE FARMHOUSE
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 FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wem Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 51981 31582
Details
WEM RURAL C.P. EDSTASTON SJ 53 SW 6/140 Yew Tree Farmhouse - - II
Shown on O.S. map as Yew Tree House. Farmhouse. C17, altered late C18, with later additions and alterations. Painted brick largely concealing or replacing timber frame; plain tile roof with crow-stepping to left gable end. 3-unit baffle-entry plan with half-length brick lean-to to rear. One storey and attic with dentilled eaves cornice. Late C19 casements with C18 segmental heads, one to left and 2 to right of 4-panel door under C19 open gabled porch with cast-iron columns; late C19 gabled eaves dormers directly above right windows. Reddish brown stack immediately behind ridge to left of entrance. Timber framed square panels exposed to right gable end, now concealed by attached C19 farmbuilding (not of special architectural interest). C19 single-storey brick lean-to to left gable end. Interior: chamfered spine beams and heavy joists to 2 main ground-floor rooms. Massive stack, stepped on first floor, with rebuilt inglenook fireplace to left ground-floor room; dog-leg staircase behind stack in right room. Single-purlin roof with straight windbraces and collar and tie beam exposed to first truss from left.
Listing NGR: SJ5198131582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427661
- 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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