Yew Tree House
YEW TREE HOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276826
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE HOUSE, THE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14985/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276826
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE HOUSE, THE 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, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brook
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 06684 44496
Details
TR 04 SE BROOK THE STREET (west side)
4/62 Yew Tree House
GV II
House. Circa 1600, altered C19. Timber framed and clad with red brick and fish-scale tile hung first floor, with plain tiled roof. Lobby entry plan of central entry/stack bay and flanking rooms of different sizes. Two storeys to hipped roof with gablets and off-centre stack. Two box-framed sashes with central small wooden casement on first floor, and 2 wooden casements on ground floor. Boarded central door with sidelight in large C20 porch. One storey and attic C20 extension to rear, with roof stepped up from main range, stack and boarded door. Interior: evidence of continuous jetty on both long sides and of wooden mullioned window. Clasped purlin and wind brace roof. Unheated upper room to smaller framed bay. An unusual house plan in this area. (See Traditional Kent Buildings, Vol. 5).
Listing NGR: TR0668344498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408368
- 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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