Old Yew Tree Farmhouse

OLD YEW TREE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383616
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
Old Yew Tree Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
OLD YEW TREE FARMHOUSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383616
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
Old Yew Tree Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
OLD 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
OLD YEW TREE FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ashford Bowdler
National Grid Reference:
SO 51652 70599

Details

ASHFORD BOWDLER

SO5170 Old Yew Tree Farmhouse
482-1/14/22
15/03/74

GV II

Farmhouse now house. C17 front range, early C18 main range,
C20 extension. Painted timber-frame with painted brick infill
on painted stone plinth, brick to rear; brick main range;
plain-tiled roofs. Brick coped gables to rear with projecting
gable-end chimneys. Front range of 2 framed bays aligned
east-west with single-bay cross wing to rear. Parallel main
range of 2 units set back to right.
EXTERIOR: front range of 2 storeys with side wall-frame to
road (north) of square framing 3 panels high with straight
braces each side. Left return gable-end: jettied first floor
with rectangular panels on plain bressumer, and straight
braces; 2 C20 casements; gable-end truss of straight tie beam,
twin raking struts, and collar; square framing 2 panels deep
to ground floor, 2 C20 casements. Rear wing to left (east):
brick, single-storey and attic; entrance door in enclosed C20
lean-to porch extension, tiled gabled dormer with 2-light
casement. Rear wing gable-end (south): C19 casement at attic
flanked by pigeon holes with ledges built into gable end;
brick storey band; C19 4-light casement in enlarged brick
segmentally-arched opening at ground level. Main range of 2
storeys and undercroft. Rear garden (south) facade: C20
casement window with top lights to ground-floor left; with 2
C20 casements connected under flat dormer roof with brickwork
between as continuation of main wall projecting through
original eaves. Street (north) facade with 2 single-light
casements, plain boarded door to undercroft. C20 entrance
porch to left.
INTERIOR: front range with deep-chamfered bridging beams, roof
with twin-strut internal truss, single trenched purlin roof.
Rear wing with twin raking-strut truss and single purlin roof.
Main range with chamfered bridging beam with ogee-chamfer
stops, roof with framed internal partition and truss with tie
beam, vertical struts, collar and twin raking struts, single
purlin roof.


Listing NGR: SO5165270599

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
484048
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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