Swindon House Yew Tree Cottage

Swindon House, also known as Yew Tree Cottage, is a house now divided into two separate residences. It likely dates from the mid to late 17th century, with a mid-19th century addition at the rear. The building features a large dressed stone facade that is rough-cast at the front and has a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high and has a two-cell double-depth plan with two gabled fronts. Each cell has a doorway to the left of a 2-light sash window set in a double-chamfered surround, which was probably originally a 4-light window with a similar design above. The gables are coped with kneelers, and there are blocked niches at the apexes topped with ball finials. The return walls have two transverse coped gables with a brick stack at the ridge of the front gables.

Attached to the front of the house is a 20th-century plaque that reads: "Yew Tree House built about 1650 by Richard Huntington. Later the residence of Dorothy Waller, daughter of Edmund Waller, the Restoration poet; she died 18th January, 1717." The house is also associated with Corporal Crowther, who was executed following the Farnley Wood Plot of 1663. At the time of the resurvey, the house was unoccupied.