BARN AT YEW TREE FARM

BARN AT YEW TREE FARM, THE VILLAGE

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Barn, 1671 with later additions. Built of partly coursed rubble with a slate roof. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392518
Date first listed:: 09-Apr-2008
List Entry Name:: BARN AT YEW TREE FARM
Statutory Address:: BARN AT YEW TREE FARM, THE VILLAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392518
Date first listed:: 09-Apr-2008
List Entry Name:: BARN AT YEW TREE FARM
Statutory Address 1:: BARN AT YEW TREE FARM, THE VILLAGE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BARN AT YEW TREE FARM, THE VILLAGE

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

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Kirkburton
National Grid Reference:: SE 16487 12769

Reasons for Designation

The Barn at Yew Tree Farm is designated for listing at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It carries a dated lintel over a doorway of 1671 * It retains a number of original features of interest, including an unaltered cart entrance and a number of circular pitching windows, indicative of its period and distinctive of its region * It has suffered from relatively little alteration * The domestic character of the southern end is of interest for its evidence of earlier living patterns on the farmstead * It is one of a group of early farm buildings in the farmstead which provide evidence of prosperity and growth at this period in the history of the region.

Details

KIRKBURTON

159/0/10020 THE VILLAGE 09-APR-08 Farnley Tyas BARN AT YEW TREE FARM

GV II Barn, 1671 with later additions. Built of partly coursed rubble with a slate roof.

PLAN: The main body of the barn is two storey and has 4 bays, with a narrow recessed bay at the south end which is stone slated with a mono-pitch roof rising to the ridge line on the west side of the barn.

EXTERIOR: The main front of the barn (east facing) has a central tall arched cart entrance with a semi-circular dovecote flight hole above with a projecting stone cill. To the right is a 3-light wooden framed window and a door, then a small square window and a further door. To the left is another window, obscured by vegetation. At first floor level are 3 pitching eyes, one to the left and two to the right of the cart entrance. At the left end is a further attached building set back from the main front, with a Tudor-arch doorway and adjacent window. The stone lintel of the doorway has a date of 1671 and the initials IS within an incised border. Above is another window. The building at this end is partly overlapped by an adjoining cottage. The north-west gable end of the barn faces the road and has 3 ground floor wooden framed 3-light windows. At the right side is an extension with a continuous catslide roof from the main roof, but with a butt joint to the main building. This has a single window and doorway. The main barn has large quoins at the corners. The south-west face of the barn has a single storey extension to the left end with a small window high on the right return. A lean-to extension to the right has stone walls to each side, a corrugated asbestos roof supported on a central brick pillar and an open front. Between the two extensions is a 3-light wood framed window at ground floor level and an opening at first floor level with wooden shutters. There are also 2 ventilation slits at different levels. To the right is a separate section with stone slate roof and a doorway. There is a truncated chimney stack at the ridge end, and evidence of another, lower building that formerly extended to the front alongside the extant lean-to. At this end, the barn abuts the cottage to the right.

INTERIOR: The trusses are king post and of relatively recent origin, as are the rafters and roof lining. The section to the south is divided internally from the main barn, as are the extensions on the west side.

SETTING: The barn is set among a group of agricultural buildings and farm cottages loosely scattered across a large corner plot in the centre of the village of Farnley Tyas.

HISTORY: The date of 1671 on the lintel of a doorway at the southern end of the barn is consistent with its appearance: the stone slate roof probably formerly extended over the whole barn. The 1854 OS map shows an extension on the west side which may be the extant open-fronted lean-to, and later maps show the extension at the north end of the west side and further buildings, now gone, at both the southern and northern ends of the barn.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION The barn at Yew Tree Farm is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It carries a dated lintel over a doorway of 1671 * It retains a number of original features of interest, including an unaltered cart entrance and a number of circular pitching windows, indicative of its period and distinctive of its region * It has suffered from relatively little alteration * The domestic character of the southern end is of interest for its evidence of earlier living patterns on the farmstead * It is one of a group of early farm buildings in the farmstead which provide evidence of prosperity and growth at this period in the history of the region.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 504440
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.