Yew Trees

Yew Trees is a detached house built in the mid to late 18th century. It features Flemish bond brickwork and has a tiled mansard roof on the right-hand range, while the left-hand range has a plain tiled roof with coped verges and brick stacks at the gable ends. The house is two stories tall with a three-window late 18th-century entrance front. The central entrance has a six-panelled door set in panelled reveals, topped with a semi-circular fanlight and a flat wooden hood supported by brackets. On either side of the door are 20-pane sash windows. There is a plat band at the first floor level, above which are three 12-pane sash windows. A moulded stone cornice sits above a plain brick blocking course. The lower pitch of the mansard roof features three raking dormers, each with 6-pane sashes.

Attached to the left is a range, likely built in the mid 18th century, which has five 12-pane segmental-headed sash windows and a three-brick plat band at the first floor. This range also includes two 9-pane sashes and three blocked sashes, along with two 6-pane sashes in segmental-headed dormers. The left return of the house is constructed in good English bond brick and is notable for its unusual diagonal brick buttresses topped with ogee swept copings. The interior was not accessible during the survey in May 1986. The front of the house was rebuilt after a fire in 1789. The Whitaker family occupied the house until 1940, and Jeffery Whitaker opened a school here around 1740, which closed around 1820.