Yew Tree Cottage

SO 37 SE 12/22 21.3.68

BUCKNELL C.P. THE CAUSEWAY (south side) Yew Tree Cottage [formerly listed as Yewtree Cottage (Doctors' house and bank premises)]

GV II

Cottage. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with rendered infill on rubblestone plinth; slate roof. 2 storeys; 2 framed bays. Framing: square panels, 4 from cill to wall-plate with short straight tension braces. Projecting double-purlin ends and renewed collar and tie beam end trusses with V-struts from collars. Mid-C20 three-light casements to left and right of contemporary gabled porch with inner C20 boarded door to right of centre; 2 sets of pairedC20 casements directly below eaves with carved brackets to corners and centre of earlier cills. Internal end stack to left has shaft rebuilt in C20 brown brick. Interior. Left ground-floor room has deep-chamfered cross-beam ceiling and heavy joists; similar deep- chamfered spine beam and joists to right ground-floor room, which has square panels exposed to original back wall. Square panels also to central cross wall, which has timber frame exposed to collar beam level. Full-length C20 planted timber frame lean-to to rear is not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SO3567773838