Yew Tree Cottage

Yew Tree Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It likely dates from the 15th century and was remodeled in the early 17th century, with later additions and alterations. The building is timber framed with painted brick infill and cladding, topped with machine tile roofs. It features a hall with three or four framed bays and a two-bay cross-wing that projects to the right. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has a dentilled eaves cornice on the hall range. The framing is exposed on the back wall, showing square panels with three from the cill to the wall-plate, and decorative lozenge motifs on the gable end of the hall range, much of which has been renewed. The rear gable of the cross-wing has V-struts from the collar, which is characteristic of 17th-century timber framing. The windows are mostly from the late 19th and 20th centuries, including three casements with segmental heads on the ground floor of the hall range, a larder window to the left, and two roughly central gabled dormers in the roof slope. There is one casement on each floor of the cross-wing, both with segmental heads. The entrance is located in the angle between the hall and the cross-wing, accessed through a 20th-century lean-to glazed porch. The cottage has a tall red brick ridge stack at the center of the hall range and a shorter subsidiary stack to the right. The interior was not inspected at the time of the re-survey in 1985, but it was noted to have three true cruck trusses with Alcock apex type L2.