Yew Trees

This is an 18th-century house with later additions, located on St. John's Road in Great Clacton. The building is timber-framed and has a rough render finish with batten decoration, including a parapet. The roof is red plain tiled, with two gabled dormers, and there are brick chimney stacks at the centre and rear. The front of the house has three small, vertically sliding sash windows, and a central, 19th-century hipped porch clad in weatherboarding. The front door consists of four panels with two upper lights, and is ornamented with moulded pilasters, capitals, bases, urn and swag decoration to the frieze, moulded corner patera, and a dentilled cornice. The interior retains original features including a complete timber frame with arched through bracing, a pegged side purlin roof, some original vertically boarded doors with ironmongery, and chamfered bridging joists. According to historical notes by Kenneth Walker in 1975, the house was built for and occupied by a local man, Daniel Prentice, and was freehold rather than copyhold of the manor.