Old Yew Tree Farmhouse

Old Yew Tree Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the 17th century with a front range and an early 18th century main range, and a 20th-century extension. The construction is timber-frame with painted brick infill on a stone plinth to the front, brick to the rear, and with plain-tiled roofs. Brick coped gables with projecting gable-end chimneys are visible at the rear. The original front range consists of two framed bays aligned east-west, with a single-bay cross wing to the rear. The main range, set back to the right, has two units.

The front range is two storeys high and features a side wall-frame to the north (facing the road) constructed of square framing three panels high, with straight braces either side. A jettied first floor with rectangular panels on a plain bressumer and straight braces is visible on the left return gable-end, along with two 20th-century casement windows. The gable-end truss has a straight tie beam, twin raking struts, and a collar, with square framing two panels deep to the ground floor and two 20th-century casements. The rear wing on the left (east) is of brick construction, single-storey and attic. It includes an entrance door within a tiled gabled lean-to porch extension, and a dormer with a two-light casement. The rear wing’s gable end (south) has a 19th-century casement at attic level flanked by pigeon holes with ledges built into the gable, a brick storey band, and a 19th-century four-light casement in an enlarged brick segmentally-arched opening at ground level. The main range is two storeys and includes an undercroft. The rear garden (south) facade has a 20th-century casement window with top lights at ground floor level left, alongside two 20th-century casements connected under a flat dormer roof with brickwork between, projecting through the original eaves. The street (north) facade displays two single-light casements, a plain boarded door to the undercroft, and a 20th-century entrance porch to the left.

Inside the front range are deep-chamfered bridging beams and a roof with a twin-strut internal truss and a single trenched purlin. The rear wing has a twin raking-strut truss and a single purlin roof. The main range features a chamfered bridging beam with ogee-chamfer stops, a roof with a framed internal partition and a truss featuring a tie beam, vertical struts, collar, twin raking struts, and a single purlin.