Yew Tree Hotel and Attached Railings and Piers and Gates
YEW TREE HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS AND GATES, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382386
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Hotel and Attached Railings and Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS AND GATES, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382386
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Hotel and Attached Railings and Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS AND GATES, 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 HOTEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS AND GATES, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Henley-in-Arden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 15072 65733
Details
HENLEY-IN-ARDEN
SP1565 HIGH STREET
652-1/11/116 (West side)
06/02/52 Yew Tree Hotel and attached
railings, piers and gates
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET, Henley-In-Arden
(West side)
Yewtree House)
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(West side)
Premises occupied by GF Lodder and
Sons Solicitors)
GV II
House, now hotel. Dated 1579 with C18 and C20 alterations and
additions. Timber-frame with plastered infill; painted brick
addition to left, rendered brick part to right; hipped and
gabled tile roof with brick ridge and rear stacks. Cross-axial
stack to right with diagonal shafts. 2 main parts that to left
a complex plan, that to right, formerly 2 houses, a 3-unit
plus cross-wing plan with 2-unit plan addition to right.
EXTERIOR: Left part: 2 storeys, 4-window range. 2-storey porch
under hipped roof to right of centre with gabled timber-framed
projection to left and large 2-storey canted bay under hipped
roof to right; left end has plat band and coped gable. Porch
has opening with panelled pilasters, frieze and cornice; inner
benches and entrance with studded wide-boarded door.
Windows have wooden frames with leaded glazing; some iron
opening casements. Ground floor has window with 3-light
transomed glazing; canted bay to projection has frieze and
cornice over 5-light transomed window with decorative leading;
canted bay to right of porch has 5-light transomed window.
First floor has window with paired cross-casements to left
end; projection has 3-light transomed window flanked by
original small 2-light wooden-mullioned windows; porch has
large 3-light window; bay to right has 5-light transomed
window flanked by cross-casements; narrow cross-casement to
right end.
Close-studded framing to first floor of projection and to
porch; square framing to gables; decorative panelling with
cusped concave-sided lozenges over entrance.
Blocked entrance to left end has plaque with boar's head crest
pierced by arrow (qv Lloyds Bank); some rainwater heads.
Right part: 2 storeys, 3+3-window range. Entrance to left of
centre has studded door with strap hinges. Windows have leaded
glazing. Wing to left has a bay window with frieze and cornice
over 1:4:1-light transomed glazing; two 3-light transomed
windows to centre and left, and one to right end of ground
floor. First floor has canted oriel to wing with decorative
glazing, 2-light window over entrance and 3-light windows
between 2 gabled half-dormers with 3-light windows. Close
studding to first floor except wing, which has decorative
framing to gable. Addition to right has 3 windows with 2-light
casements. First floor window to left end has similar
casement. Right return has wall stud and exposed square
framing with painted brick infill to first floor and gable.
Parallel rear range and lean-to outshut. Some lead rainwater
heads.
INTERIOR: of left part: not inspected, recorded as having:
room to right of lobby has large stone fireplace with moulded
opening; small room to left has similar, plainer, fireplace
dated 1651.
2 rear rooms, now one, with early C16 stone fireplace with
moulded jambs and 4-centred arch with foliate spandrels;
overmantel not all in-situ; chamfered and moulded beams to
north end; early C17 staircase with pierced balusters moulded
to rake of stair.
SUBSIDARY FEATURES: attached iron railings on stone-coped
brick plinth have spear-head finials; rusticated brick piers
with ashlar ball finials to gate.
HISTORY: the home of William James, railway pioneer, from
1796.
Part of right previously listed 06/02/52.
FORMER PRN: 652-1/29/90.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 311; Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria
History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 207-8; Cooper W:
Henley-in-Arden: An Ancient Market Town: Birmingham: 1946-:
104-5).
Listing NGR: SP1507265733
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482770
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 207-208
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 311
Cooper, W, Henley in Arden: An Ancient Market Town, (1946), 104-105
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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