Yew Tree House

Yew Tree House is a shop located on the north side of High Street in Broadway, dating back to the 17th century, with possible earlier elements and later alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of squared limestone and features a stone slate roof.

The left side of the structure has a gabled cross-wing that is two storeys high with an attic and consists of one bay. On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century bowed window, while the first floor has a casement window and the attic features a sashed window, all with plain reveals. The gable is coped. To the right, there is a two-bay range that is one storey tall with an attic. The ground floor on the left has a tripartite sashed window with glazing bars set within a blocked 17th-century window that has a drip course. The right side features a canted bay window with glazing bars on a stone base. A leaded canopy extends over the doorway to the left. The upper storey is illuminated by casement windows with glazing bars, which are set within enlarged rebated and chamfered surrounds, featuring hoods and partly located within dormer gables. Above the left-hand window, there is a sundial plaque with an iron gnomon. The doorway has plain reveals, and there is a chimney to the right of the cross-wing.

Inside, the ground floor rooms of the main range have chamfered and stopped ceiling beams. To the right of the doorway, there is a timber-framed partition wall that has been partially removed. The central room includes a stone inglenook with splayed sides and a timber bressummer, and its rear wall is made of timber-framing in square panels. Some timber framing is also present at the junction between the cross-wing and the main range. It is unclear from the exposed timbers whether the building includes parts of an earlier timber-framed structure. In the 17th century, some local stone buildings were constructed using timber-framing for rear walls and internal partitions. The upper storey was not accessible during the survey conducted in December 1986.