Yew Tree Cottage

Yew Tree Cottage is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to 1634, with later additions and alterations. The structure is timber-framed with painted brick infill and a graded slate roof. It originally had a baffle-entry plan of three framed bays, although the right bay was demolished and rebuilt in the late 20th century, finished in black and white to resemble timber framing. The house is one storey and attic. The framing shows vertical posts with later horizontal timbers below a girding beam and one rectangular panel above, also with later horizontal timbers. There is late 20th-century fenestration, including two casements to the ground floor of the 17th-century part, positioned where the original entrance was, and two flat-roofed eaves dormers, one in the 17th-century section and one in the 20th-century addition. A prominent red brick ridge stack with three attached and rebated shafts of star section and moulded capping stands immediately to the right of the centre. The date "1634" is inscribed on the girding beam to the right of the original entrance. Inside, the main ground-floor room to the left of the stack contains two massive chamfered spine beams with heavy joists and a rebuilt inglenook fireplace. A double-purlin roof with part of a collar and tie-beam truss is exposed in the first bay from the left.