Yew Tree Farmhouse
YEW TREE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320925
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320925
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1992
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Oct-1992
- 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:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Butcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 51241 61360
Details
In the entry for:-
ST 56 SW BUTCOMBE
1816/6/10000 Yew Tree Farmhouse
II
the entry shall be amended to read:
ST 56 SW BUTCOMBE
1816/6/10001 Yew Tree Farmhouse
II
------------------------------------ The following building shall be added to the list:-
ST 56 SW BUTCOMBE
1816/6/10000 Yew Tree Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, now house. Roughly coursed limestone rubble with part-rendered wing, pantile roof, stone coped gable to right (SE) and stone ridge and right end stacks. T-plan with left-hand cross wing to NW: C15 three-bay open hall had stack and floor inserted in C17; through-passage to right of stack in lower end rebuilt as parlour wing in C17. Two storeys; 3-window range. Timber lintels over C20 half-glazed door and casements; C19 two- light casement with turnbuckle to first-floor centre; cross wing projects to front and rear, with C19 lean-to to rear. Interior: noted as having 3-bay smoke-blackened cruck roof to hall with notched tenoned apex and in-line tenoned purlins; cruck to left obscured by inserted stack; ground-floor hall fireplace has arched chamfered bressumer and chamfered stone joints with oven to left possibly inserted into curing chamber. Parlour to right has scroll stops to chamfered ground-floor beam and first-floor fireplace; through-passage blocked to rear and retains head beam to front. Altered crude truss to cross wing. (Report for Vernacular Architecture Group by E H D Williams, 1991)
Listing NGR: ST5124161360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 34041
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williams, E H D, Report of the Somerset Vernacular Architecture Group in Report of the Somerset Vernacular Architecture Group, ()
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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