Yew Tree Farmhouse

ST 69 SW ROCKHAMPTON NEWTON

4/245 Yew tree Farmhouse

• II

Farmhouse. Rear block dates from early C17, rest of house late Cl7, with later alterations. Rubble, roughcast to north and west, double Roman tiled roof at front, pantiled to rear, with gable stacks and ridge stack. L-plan. 2 storeys, 3 windows, 3 steep gables rising to ridge height, 3-light casements at ground and 1st floor, decreasing in size, 2-light casement in each gable, 2nd bay from left has panelled and glass door in moulded frame. North elevation has two 2-light casements at 1st floor and one at ground floor, 1½ storey rear kitchen wing has two 2-light casements at ground floor and gable rising to ridge height to each side, with 2-light casement, single storey lean- to and brick gable stack; south elevation of wing has plank door in heavy moulded frame. South elevation of main block has 2-light casement at ground and 1st floor, limestone sundial with scratch markings set at 1st floor level; rear repeats pattern of front, except door in chamfered frame to right, and small blocked stair lights at ground and 1st floor between 2 gables to left, only timber lintels remaining. Interior: parlour and parlour-chamber beams chamfered with scroll and bar stops, all others scroll-stopped, kitchen door with heavy ovolo-moulded frame cut back for passage of barrels; winder stair against hall stack. (Sources: Hall, Linda : Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire (1400-1720. 1983).

Listing NGR: ST6472892685