Yew Tree Cottage

SJ 40 NE CONDOVER C.P. CONDOVER

5/75 Yew Tree Cottage -

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably C15, re-modelled early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with painted brick infill and cladding, machine tile roofs. Hall of 3 or 4 framed bays with 2-bay cross-wing projecting to right. One storey and attic, dentilled eaves cornice to hall range; framing: exposed to back wall, square panels, 3 from cill to wall-plate, and to gable end of hall range - much renewed with decorative lozenge motifs; rear gable of cross-wing has V-struts from collar characteristic of C17 timber frame; fenestration all late C19 and C20, 3 casements with segmental heads to ground floor of hall range with larder window to left, 2 roughly central gabled dormers in roof slope, one casement on each floor to cross-wing, both with segmental heads; entrance in angle between hall and cross-wing through C20 lean-to glazed porch; tall red brick ridge stack to centre of hall range and a shorter subsidiary stack to right. Interior: inspection not possible at time of re-survey (1985), but noted as having 3 true cruck trusses with Alcock apex type L2. Alcock (1981), p.143.

Listing NGR: SJ4937505947