Yew Trees

Yew Trees is a small house built in 1848 for the National Co-operative Land Company by F. O'Connor. The house features painted brickwork on the plinth, a slate roof, and a brick lower floor with a weatherboarded upper section. An attached farm building on the left has a corrugated-iron roof. The front of the house has three bays and is single-storey, with a single-storey wing behind on the right and a two-storey, single-bay section on the left. The centre bay projects slightly and has a gable above it, with a fully-glazed 20th-century door set under a flat rubbed brick arch. There are probably original narrow single-light windows with small panes on either side of the door. Each wing features a twin-light 20th-century casement window, also with a head like the door. A plain string course runs along the front of the gable, with a slightly projecting brick course at the verge and no ventilator. The verge has a plain rafter on a shaped corbel at the foot, and there is a slightly projecting brick course at the eaves of the wings. The house has brick chimneys on each end gable and one in the centre at the rear. A two-storey wing projects at the rear on the left, with a gable facing the front, and has a double boarded door on the ground floor and a single boarded door above. Originally, the property included a 3-acre plot. Yew Trees is listed mainly for its historical and sociological significance and forms a group with the Prince of Wales Public House and other Chartist cottages.