The Yews And Numbers 4 And 5

The Yews and Numbers 4 and 5 is a farmhouse that has been divided into three dwellings. It has a core that dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century and was remodeled and extended in the mid-19th century, with later additions and alterations. The building features a roughcast timber frame along with brick or rubblestone, and it has slate roofs.

The structure has a basic L-plan layout, consisting of a former jettied 16th or 17th-century range, which appears to have three or four framed bays but has had its eaves raised. There is a higher three-bay mid-19th-century range that runs at right angles to the south-west. A two-storey gabled addition from the 19th century is positioned at right angles to the rear of the 16th/17th-century range, forming Number 5.

The 16th or 17th-century range, which now makes up Number 4 and part of The Yews, has five 20th-century casement windows directly below the eaves and four similar casement windows on the ground floor, with one to the left and three to the right of a boarded door. The outline of the jetty is visible above the ground-floor windows, as is the original wall-plate below the first-floor windows. There is an integral end stack to the right with a red brick shaft.

Inside, the 16th/17th-century range features deep-chamfered ceiling beams on the ground floor and exposed timber framing with square panels on the right wall of the corridor behind the entrance. There is a large chimney breast to the right. The mid-19th-century three-bay addition to the south-west is not of special architectural interest. At the time of the last survey in August 1986, Number 5 was disused. The building is included for its group value.