Stable End Yew Tree Cottage

BROOMHAUGH AND RIDING BROOMHAUGH NZ 06 SW (West side)

4/68 Stable End and Yew Tree Cottage

GV II

Pair of houses. Stable End is late C16/early C17 bastle, remodelled when Yew Tree Cottage (dated 1699 with initials MV & TV, on lintel) added; both refenestrated early C19 when outbuilding to south of Stable End added, incorporated into house during alterations c.1970. Rubble, in places massive, with some dressings; slate roofs. East elevation: each house 2 storeys, 2 irregular bays. Off-centre renewed doors,chamfered (Stable End) and wave- moulded (Yew Tree Cottage) surrounds with flattened triangular heads in square frames; 12-pane sash windows. Original bastle quoins to right of Stable End; to left l-bay former outbuilding with 2 small windows. Coped gables, stepped stone ridge and right end stacks. Rear elevation: Yew Tree Cottage shows blocked 1st floor window in recessed chamfered surround. Interior: Stable End retains central byre entrance in south end (now opening into kitchen, in former outbuilding); this retains its original harr-hung batten door in pegged oak frame, a very rare survival. Heavy transverse ceiling beams and plain C18 (?) fireplace. Yew Tree Cottage has a similar fireplace with a strainer beam or sawn-off bressumer above; at 1st floor level a good fireplace of c.1699 with similar moulding; and similar head form to the doorway.

Listing NGR: NZ0212261559