Old Yew Tree Farmhouse

ASHFORD BOWDLER

SO5170 Old Yew Tree Farmhouse 482-1/14/22 15/03/74

GV II

Farmhouse now house. C17 front range, early C18 main range, C20 extension. Painted timber-frame with painted brick infill on painted stone plinth, brick to rear; brick main range; plain-tiled roofs. Brick coped gables to rear with projecting gable-end chimneys. Front range of 2 framed bays aligned east-west with single-bay cross wing to rear. Parallel main range of 2 units set back to right. EXTERIOR: front range of 2 storeys with side wall-frame to road (north) of square framing 3 panels high with straight braces each side. Left return gable-end: jettied first floor with rectangular panels on plain bressumer, and straight braces; 2 C20 casements; gable-end truss of straight tie beam, twin raking struts, and collar; square framing 2 panels deep to ground floor, 2 C20 casements. Rear wing to left (east): brick, single-storey and attic; entrance door in enclosed C20 lean-to porch extension, tiled gabled dormer with 2-light casement. Rear wing gable-end (south): C19 casement at attic flanked by pigeon holes with ledges built into gable end; brick storey band; C19 4-light casement in enlarged brick segmentally-arched opening at ground level. Main range of 2 storeys and undercroft. Rear garden (south) facade: C20 casement window with top lights to ground-floor left; with 2 C20 casements connected under flat dormer roof with brickwork between as continuation of main wall projecting through original eaves. Street (north) facade with 2 single-light casements, plain boarded door to undercroft. C20 entrance porch to left. INTERIOR: front range with deep-chamfered bridging beams, roof with twin-strut internal truss, single trenched purlin roof. Rear wing with twin raking-strut truss and single purlin roof. Main range with chamfered bridging beam with ogee-chamfer stops, roof with framed internal partition and truss with tie beam, vertical struts, collar and twin raking struts, single purlin roof.

Listing NGR: SO5165270599