Yew Tree House

HAWKLEY EMPSHOTT GREEN SU 73 SW 4/8 Yew Tree House 23/01/86 II House. C16, C17, C18 and c.1900. Mixed walling; tile-hung front (with scalloped bands), brickwork in English bond, exposed framing bricknogged, small areas of coursed malmstone and boarding. Tile roof, hipped at the rear, with outshots, and gabled dormers. Late-medieval timber-framed hall with smoke bay, later filled with a massive stack and insertion of upper floor to produce a lobby-entrance dwelling, with staircase replaced by a C17 staircase block, which was absorbed within a large C17 timber-framed rear wing. South front of 2 storeys, 2 windows; plain roof with shafted stack, tile-hung walls, C20 casements, and plain doorway with hood on brackets. The west side, refaced and restored c.1900, embodies the rear wing, with an elevation of 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows; tile-hung south side gable, 2 gabled dormers, brick walls in English bond, casements, and open porch. Interior: the fireplaces have C16 chamfered stone surrounds (facing east) and C16 timber- bressummers (also chamfered with Tudor arched form) on the west side, the staircase has framing (possibly re-used) of Jacobean form, with crude newels, most of the framing being visible.