Yew Tree House

OVERBURY CP PIGEON LANE (south side) SO 9637 - 9737 10/139 No 34 (Yew Tree House) GV II

House. 1905 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed lime- stone rubble and stone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses, gableted at west end and with large ridge end stacks. Single storey and attic with half-dormers. Three bays. Windows are all leaded casements. There are two 2-light windows and a single-light window on the ground floor, all have wedge lintels, and a central gabled half-dormer with a 2-light window. The central entrance has a gabled rustic timber porch and a half-glazed door with a wedge lintel. The front north-east corner of the building has the lower angle chamfered back (as if to provide room for vehicle access) with the upper part corbelled out flush with the main wall surfaces. On this chamfered section of the wall is inscribed "YEW TREE COTTAGE/ AD 1905". There is a lean-to addition at the west end with a 2-light window in its front elevtion. (Newton, W G: The Life and Work of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).

Listing NGR: SO9617337875