Yew Tree House
YEW TREE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366857
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE HOUSE
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- Date:
- 2002-10-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/09035/20
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366857
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE 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 TREE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leighton and Eaton Constantine
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 60628 06128
Details
SJ 60 NW; 2/87
LEIGHTON AND EATON,
GARMSTON CONSTANTINE C.P.,
Yew Tree House
GV
II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C16, extended 1622 (datestone) with later
additions and alterations. Timber-framed on brick plinth with painted
brick infill, machine tile roof. Original plan a hall of 2½ framed
bays with 2-bay cross-wing projecting to left; twin-gabled addition
of 1622 in angle between, mid-C19 brick addition at right-angles to
rear. Two storeys; framing: rectangular panels, three from cill
to wall plate with long straight tension braces, V-struts from collar
to front gable of cross-wing, larger panels to C17 part; irregular
fenestration, late C19 and C20 casements, one on first floor to each
gable and on ground floor to left and right gables, late C19 gabled
timber-framed porch to centre gable with C20 outer door; prominent
red brick ridge stack to left of hall range, diamond-shaped date stone
(1622) to centre gable. INTERIOR: chamfered spine beams with ogee
stops to 1622 part; inglenook fireplace beneath hall stack has
chamfered wooden lintel and a stone inscribed "JOHN HIGGINSON/
EDWARD JOHNSON/LAYD THIS STON/1622".
Listing NGR: SJ6062806128
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258871
- 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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