Stable End Yew Tree Cottage

Stable End and Yew Tree Cottage are a pair of houses located in Broomhaugh and Riding. Stable End dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century and was originally a bastle. It was remodeled when Yew Tree Cottage was added in 1699, as indicated by the initials MV and TV on the lintel. Both houses were refenestrated in the early 19th century when an outbuilding to the south of Stable End was added and later incorporated into the house around 1970. The buildings are constructed of rubble, some of which is massive, with slate roofs.

The east elevation features two storeys and two irregular bays for each house. There are off-centre renewed doors, with a chamfered surround for Stable End and a wave-moulded surround for Yew Tree Cottage, both having flattened triangular heads in square frames. The windows are 12-pane sash types. Stable End retains original bastle quoins on the right side, while the left side has a former outbuilding with two small windows. The gables are coped, and there are stepped stone ridges and right end stacks.

On the rear elevation, Yew Tree Cottage displays a blocked first-floor window in a recessed chamfered surround. Inside, Stable End retains a central byre entrance at the south end, which now opens into the kitchen in the former outbuilding. This entrance features an original har-hung batten door in a pegged oak frame, a very rare survival. The interior also has heavy transverse ceiling beams and a plain fireplace from the 18th century. Yew Tree Cottage has a similar fireplace with a strainer beam or sawn-off bressumer above it, and at the first-floor level, there is a well-preserved fireplace dating from around 1699 with similar moulding and a matching head form to the doorway.