Yew Tree Cottage

Yew Tree Cottage is an early 16th century open hall house located on Tattlers Lane in Aston. The house features later additions, including floors and a central chimney that were inserted in the late 17th century or early 18th century, with the date 'FR 1716' painted on the front dormer. The fireplace was altered, and an oven and west gable chimney were added in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The flat-roofed porches were constructed in 1958, and a rear wing was added in 1966.

The building has a timber frame on a plastered brick sill, with roughcast walls and an oval pargetting motif above the door. The front porches are made of pale buff brick and white painted timber. The roof is steeply pitched with red tiles and has a half-hipped design. The central chimney is plastered, while the external west gable chimney is made of red brick.

Yew Tree Cottage is a three-cell house facing south, with an open hall of unequal bays and two end bays, all lacking evidence of upper floors. The late 17th century central chimney creates a lobby entry plan. Axial chamfered beams with ogee stops in the hall support the inserted floor. A winding stair, which was formerly in the unheated west room, was removed by the late 18th century, and a new stair was formed at the northeast corner next to the new rear wing, exposing the framing.

The front of the house has three windows, including a gabled two-light dormer above the hall, which features the painted date in the gable. There are three-light casement windows at the ends, but a larger 20th century sliding window is located to the right of the flat-roofed porch, which is linked to a small flat-roofed extension at the east end, all constructed in buff brick. At the rear northeast, there is a plastered, flat-roofed first-floor extension on piers, situated on a steep hillside.

Inside, the hall has an open fireplace with an iron door to the oven in the north jamb. The interior features exposed timbers, including jowled posts and a cambered tie-beam supporting the open truss of the hall. The roof has clasped purlins with curved wind-braces, and the rear wallplate exhibits an edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts in the larger hall bay, as well as a face-halved scarf joint with sallied butts near the east end.