Yew House
YEW HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365190
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Yew House
- Statutory Address:
- YEW HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365190
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Yew House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW HOUSE
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 HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dordon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 24066 99872
Details
DORDON FREASLEY SP29NW 8/24 Yew House 23/11/51 Formerly listed as House occupied by the Misses Wicksteed and formerly known as Lakyns, C.P. of Polesworth)
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House, Late C16/C17, partly refaced 18/early C19, with later additions. Timber-framed with whitewashed brick infill, and whitewashed brick with some painted sham framing. Old plain-tile roofs; brick right end and ridge stacks. 3-unit plan with additions. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range; one-storey-and-attic, 3 one-window range to left. Ribbed 2-panelled door on right. Irregular fenestration of 2- and 3-light leaded casements. Ground floor has 5 windows; 2 of them have segmental arches. Left range has C20 two-light dormer. C19 one-storey range set back on right is of whitewashed brick with dentil cornice, and hipped roof. 3-light wood mullioned and transomed window has segmental arch. Interior is said to have a C17 staircase. (VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, p189)
Listing NGR: SP2406699872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309258
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 189
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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