The Yews

The Yews, East Street 12/250 9/250

ST4619 MARTOCK CP EAST STREET (South side)

12/250 The Yews (Formerly listed as Yews Farmhouse) 19.4.61

GV II

Farmhouse. C17, with medieval fragments. Ham stone ashlar facade, cut and squared stone to sides and rear; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables: brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 wide bays. Outer bays have 2-light architraved plain mullioned windows of C18, but bay 2 has a 2-storey gabled bay window angled with 1+3+1 light hollow chamfer in ovolo mould recess mullioned windows, the gable having shaped kneelers and gabletted finial to copings: between bays 2 and 3 an earlier C19 part-glazed flush panel door in architraved recess having matching timber panelled reveals. Interior not seen, but reported is a 3 room cross passage plan, with main fireplace backing on to cross passage, and a plain chamfer mould panelled ceiling to present hall: in roof the remains of a true cruck truss and one purlin, smoke blackened with square set ridge over saddle apex. To east gable of house a long wing wall with plain gateway: to west gable a long barn building with throughway next to the house, these both in cut and squared stonework, the barn having a corrugated iron roof on steel trusses. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, November 1976).

Listing NGR: ST4648419293