Yew Tree House Yew Tree Post Office Yew Trees

This is a terrace of two houses and a former outbuilding now used as a post office, located in Beetham. The houses themselves date to the 18th century. The post office section has initials and the date "I 1881 T" on its door lintel, suggesting a renovation or alteration in 1881, although the ground floor appears to be of earlier construction, with the upper floor likely added in the 19th century.

The building is constructed of limestone rubble walls with roughly-dressed limestone quoins and window surrounds to the ground floor. It has a graduated greenslate roof. The terrace is two storeys high, with three bays to each house and one bay to the post office.

The post office has a heavy, studded boarded door with decorative iron hinges to the left of a shop window featuring fixed glazing bars, a pointed-arched head, and an inserted letterbox. There is also a loading bay with a board door, sheltered by a bracketed, gabled slate canopy. Yew Tree House has a central six-panelled door set within an eared architrave; this architrave features a keystone under a segmental pediment resting on consoles, flanked by 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars. Above, the windows are 18th-century sashes with glazing bars in stone surrounds, with the central window's surround being moulded. The neighbouring house, Yew Trees, is similar but with a ramped door architrave and a rosette instead of a keystone. The building has three chimney stacks and a stone parapet with kneeler on the right-hand gable. The building forms an important group within the centre of the local Conservation Area.