Yew Tree Farmhouse

Yew Tree Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It is constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble, with a part-rendered wing and a pantile roof. The building features a stone-coped gable on the southeast side and has stone ridge and right end stacks. The layout is T-shaped, with a left-hand cross wing to the northwest. Originally, the building had a 15th-century three-bay open hall, which had a stack and floor added in the 17th century. The through-passage to the right of the stack in the lower end was rebuilt as a parlour wing in the 17th century. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a three-window range. It features timber lintels above a 20th-century half-glazed door and casements, as well as a 19th-century two-light casement with a turnbuckle in the centre of the first floor. The cross wing projects at both the front and rear, with a 19th-century lean-to at the back.

Inside, the farmhouse has a notable three-bay smoke-blackened cruck roof in the hall, which includes a notched tenoned apex and in-line tenoned purlins. The cruck on the left side is obscured by an inserted stack. The ground-floor hall fireplace has an arched chamfered bressumer and chamfered stone joints, with an oven to the left that may have been inserted into a curing chamber. The parlour to the right features scroll stops on the chamfered ground-floor beam and a first-floor fireplace. The through-passage at the back has been blocked but retains the head beam at the front. There is an altered crude truss in the cross wing. This information is based on a report for the Vernacular Architecture Group by E H D Williams from 1991.