Yew Tree Cottage

The property is a house, likely dating to the late 16th century, with alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries, and a 20th-century extension largely built in 1986-7. It is timber-framed with replacement brick infill and some plastered panels, with a brick underbuilding. The extension is of painted brick. The roof is thatched, half-hipped at the right end. A rebuilt brick chimney is at the left end of the older section.

The original layout comprised one storey and two bays. The left bay originally contained a timber-framed wattle-and-daub chimney stack and was probably unceiled, while the right bay had an attic floor. The left bay now has a square-panelled timber frame with straight braces leading up to the wall plate, with rafter ends visible. The entrance is at the left end, with a board door in an open pent roof. To the right of the entrance is a two-light leaded casement, with a two-light dormer window above. The right-hand bay has two small windows, where a former six-light mullioned window once stood. The right gable end has two small 19th or early 20th-century bay windows, one replacing a former mullioned window, and a 19th-century three-light window above. The extension on the left has two storeys and two bays, with small-paned windows, some set above the eaves, and a large rear lean-to porch.

Inside the older section, there is a late 17th or early 19th-century brick inglenook fireplace, heavily reworked in the 20th century. Above the fireplace is surviving framework from the former timber chimney stack within the attic. The attic floor in this bay appears to have been inserted at the same time as the inglenook, with a spine-beam featuring a stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops at one end only, and unchamfered joists. Original window openings retain shutter rebates and mortices from former mullions; one diamond-set mullion survives in the front window. A timber-framed partition wall divides the two bays, and the roof retains original purlins, wind braces, and rafters.