Yew Trees

CORSE GLOUCESTER ROAD SO 7828-7928 (west side)

14/43 Yew Trees 6.12.76

GV II

Small house: 1848 for the National Co-operative Land Company by F. O'Connor. Later alterations. Painted brickwork on plinth: slate roof: brick lower floor, weatherboarded upper with corrugated-iron roof to attached farm building on left. Three-bay, single-storey front, single-storey wing behind, to right, 2-storey, single-bay to left. Centre bay projects slightly, gable over: fully-glazed C20 door, under flat rubbed brick arch: probably original narrow single-light windows each side, small panes, head as door. Twin- light C20 casement in each wing, head as door. Plain string course to front of gable, slightly projecting brick course to verge: no ventilator. Plain verge rafter on shaped corbel at foot. Slightly projecting brick course to eaves of wings. Brick chimney on each end gable and to rear in centre. Two-storey wing projects at rear on left, gable to front: double boarded door to ground floor rear, single boarded door over. Originally with 3-acre plot. Listed principally for historical and sociological interest; forms group with Prince of Wales Public House and other Chartist cottages (q.v.). (A.M. Hadfield, The Chartist Land Company , 1970)

Listing NGR: SO7915028930