Swindon House Yew Tree Cottage

SE2628SW LS27 BANK STREET MORLEY (north side)

7/13 Nos 78 (Swindon House) 19.8.85 and 80 (Yew Tree Cottage)

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House, now in 2 occupations. Probably mid-late C17, with mid C19 added cell to rear. Large dressed stone faced in rough-cast to front, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 2-cell double-depth plan. 2 gabled front. Each cell has doorway to left of 2-light sash window in double-chamfered surround, probably originally of 4 lights with same above. Coped gables with kneelers, blocked niches to apices and ball finials. Return walls have 2 transverse coped gables with brick stack to ridge of front gables.

Attached to front is C20 plaque inscribed:-

" YEW TREE HOUSE BUILT ABOUT 1650 BY RICHARD HUNTINGTON. LATER THE RESIDENCE OF DOROTHY WALLER DAUGHTER OF EDMUND WALLER, THE RESTORATION WET, SHE DIED 18th JANUARY, 1717. "

The house also of Corporal Crowther executed after the Farnley Wood Plot of 1663. Unoccupied at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE2629828223