Yew Tree Farmhouse

Yew Tree Farmhouse is a former farmhouse with two phases of construction from the mid-16th century. It features a three-bay house that runs at right angles to the road, with a two-bay hall range added to the left. Later alterations have created a uniform road frontage, resulting in a mid-19th century facade. The building is timber framed, with the facade covered in gault brick and the rest roughcast-rendered. The roof is glazed black pantiled at the front and plain tiled at the back, with pierced wavy bargeboards on the front block. The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics. The hall range was formerly jettied at the front.

There are three windows with 6-paned sashes set under stucco lintels with keys. The doorway features a semi-glazed panelled door, a plain overlight, and a doorcase with a plain surround and a heavy cornice supported by console brackets. A 18th-century stack is located against the left gable end, while the main stack at the rear, where the two ranges meet, has a 20th-century white brick shaft.

Inside, much of the structure from the earlier phase is concealed. The front bay served as a parlour and has some good close studding on the upper floor with reverse-curved braces. The remaining two bays have widely spaced studding, and the centre bay appears to have been a one-bay open hall, indicated by evidence of a later upper floor. Fragmentary evidence suggests this bay contained a timber flue or smoke hood, and the roof timbers show signs of smoke staining. The rear bay, likely a service cell, has exposed upper framing and an intact roof with clasped purlins and cranked wind braces. The hall addition features closely spaced chamfered joists in the main room, with close studding exposed on the upper floor; the upper ceiling dates from the late 17th century, and the roof was reconstructed in the 18th to 19th centuries.