Yew Tree Farmhouse

Yew Tree Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1654, with alterations made to the rear. It features a brick-nogged oak frame and has cross-gables at each end, both of which have been rebuilt in brick at the rear. There is a 20th-century brick lean-to extension on the right side, and part of the oak frame has been removed from the left front gable. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with grey slate, and the building has two storeys and three windows. A massive brick chimney rises from the ridge, and there is a central gabled dormer. The replaced door is made of oak boards and is set in an opening with a slightly arched soffit, bearing the date and initials J (for John) C (for Cawarden), who married into the Leche family and initiated the Carden Estate. The front features early 19th-century Gothick wooden casements, restored in the mid-20th century, with leaded glazing. There are two gabled dormers on the side of the right cross-gable.

Inside, the farmhouse has a lobby entrance leading to back-to-back ingle-nooks, with the right nook featuring a small fire-window. There is a separate quadrant stair with oak winders on each side, and a recently rebuilt third stair leading from the left room to the bedroom above. A stopped ovolo beam is present over the central room, a stop-chamfered beam over the left room, and a massive chamfered beam over the right room. The jowled posts include one that is carved with a fleur-de-lys. The oak frame inside is nearly complete but has been comprehensively restored.