Yew Tree Farmhouse

YEW TREE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312411
Date first listed:
05-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Yew Tree Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
YEW TREE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312411
Date first listed:
05-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Yew Tree Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
YEW TREE FARMHOUSE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
YEW TREE FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Rockhampton
National Grid Reference:
ST 64728 92685

Details

ST 69 SW ROCKHAMPTON NEWTON

4/245 Yew tree Farmhouse

- II

Farmhouse. Rear block dates from early C17, rest of house late Cl7, with later alterations. Rubble, roughcast to north and west, double Roman tiled roof at front, pantiled to rear, with gable stacks and ridge stack. L-plan. 2 storeys, 3 windows, 3 steep gables rising to ridge height, 3-light casements at ground and 1st floor, decreasing in size, 2-light casement in each gable, 2nd bay from left has panelled and glass door in moulded frame. North elevation has two 2-light casements at 1st floor and one at ground floor, 1½ storey rear kitchen wing has two 2-light casements at ground floor and gable rising to ridge height to each side, with 2-light casement, single storey lean- to and brick gable stack; south elevation of wing has plank door in heavy moulded frame. South elevation of main block has 2-light casement at ground and 1st floor, limestone sundial with scratch markings set at 1st floor level; rear repeats pattern of front, except door in chamfered frame to right, and small blocked stair lights at ground and 1st floor between 2 gables to left, only timber lintels remaining. Interior: parlour and parlour-chamber beams chamfered with scroll and bar stops, all others scroll-stopped, kitchen door with heavy ovolo-moulded frame cut back for passage of barrels; winder stair against hall stack. (Sources: Hall, Linda : Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire (1400-1720. 1983).

Listing NGR: ST6472892685

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Legacy System number:
35362
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Hall, L, City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Monograph Number 6 in The Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720, (1983)

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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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