Yew Tree Cottage
YEW TREE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355924
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355924
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE COTTAGE, HIGH 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 COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wanborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 21150 83480
Details
SU 2083 & 2183 WANBOROUGH HIGH STREET (north-east side) Lower Wanborough 24/505 Yew Tree Cottage
GV II
House. Probably early C18, altered later C18, early C19, mid C19 and c1900. Chalk rubblestone with red brick dressings, painted; some brick to additions. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with loft, 2 wide bays; 2-storey wing added to rear left, probably C18, and 2-storey outshutadded to rear right, probably early C19. Symmetrical facade having: brick quoins; central C19 door of 6 raised and fielded panels in later, mid-late C19, cast iron decorative porch with swept roof flanked by c1900 canted bay windows with casements and flat roofs, parts of timber secondary lintels visible over door and right-hand window; on 1st floor, 2 segmental header-brick arched, 3 light windows; brick end stacks, that to right of old brick. Rear: the inner return of the wing has a segmental-arched window to ground floor, right, and a tripartite, 3-light, wood-mullion window with leaded glazing to 1st floor; brick end stack; C20 lean-to additions not of special interest. Left return: main range has end of iron tie-rod; timber linteled loft window, and fretted, decorative barge boards (of c1900). Wing has one old 2-light wood-framed window to ground floor with diamond-set mullions, saddle bars and leaded glazing tied on; 2-light window to 1st floor. Left return: main range has loft window and barge boards as before; small 4-pane window to outshut with 2-light window above. Interior: throughout chamfered beams (boxed in on ground floor of main range) and early C19 board doors, some beaded, with iron hinges; main range ground-floor rooms have early panelled shutters (fireplaces are c1900). Wooden winder stair to loft which has wide floor boards and 5 roof trusses of principal rafters with one set of butt purlins, diagonally set ridge piece, old rafters and long raking wind braces; the end stacks are of rubblestone, becoming circular below the brick tops; traces of former thatched roof.
Listing NGR: SU2115083480
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318653
- 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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