Yew Tree Cottages

TL 4115 WIDFORD HUNSDON ROAD (east side) Widford Village

5/16 Yew Tree Cottages Nos 2 and 4 -

GV II

Amend address to read as follows: Yew Tree Cottages Nos 2 and 3

TL 4115 WIDFORD HUNSDON ROAD (east side) Widford village

5/16 Yew Tree Cottages Nos 2 and 4 -

GV II

2 houses, now one house. C17 or earlier with a small early C19 brick house on S now incorporated and disguised. Timberframed and plastered with weatherboarding to front Ground Floor. Steep red tiled gabled roof. Similar matching finishes applied on top of yellow stock brickwork of C19 S part. 2 storeys with 2 widely spaced windows to each floor of each half. C19 2-light casement windows with Gothick tracery recessed in S half but set flush with a moulded architrave in the older N part. This part has a lobby entry symmetrical 2 room plan with a large central chimney of 3 flues just behind the ridge. The shallower S part had until c1980 a central door. It has a symmetrical 2 room plan with end chimneys, partly external and in red brick on the S. Modern oak door in heavy older frame under small bracketed hood, central to N part. Formerly there was a 2 storeys brick house similar to the S part, adjoining on the N. A picturesque C17 house with C19 S part. Part of a varied group in this part of the Conservation Area.

Listing NGR: TL4200115576