Yew Tree Cottage

Yew Tree Cottage is a house dating back to the late medieval period, with a 19th-century cross wing added later. The original section is built from local sandstone rubble, with traces of limewash, and has a corrugated sheet roof and a brick gable end stack. The 19th-century wing is rendered over stone and has stone stacks at each gable. An outbuilding adjoins the original range, now roofless. Originally, the house was entered from the side, near the stack, and the original doorway remains within the outbuilding; it's a wide entrance with a pegged oak frame. There’s a possible blocked stair window to the left of the stack. The front elevation features a doorway at an angle to the 19th-century wing, likely inserted during its construction, and an area of collapsed masonry, possibly around a former window in the front wall. The rear elevation retains two original windows: a four-light, chamfered timber mullion window to the hall, and a two-light timber diamond mullion window to the parlour, with wrought iron bars suggesting it predates glazing. The 19th-century wing is two stories high and features long ground-floor windows (the glazing detail is no longer present) and four-pane casement windows to the first floor.

The original section has a hall and an inner parlour, accessible from a small passage, which now connects to the 19th-century wing. This passage may once have led to a lost room. The hall retains a gable-end fireplace with a chamfered bressumer and remains of a chimney stair alongside. Two cross beams, both stop-chamfered, span the hall, one above the fireplace and one in the centre of the room, with chamfered joists. A substantial bearing plate for the central beam was revealed after masonry collapse. A fine post-and-panel partition separates the hall from the parlour and the parlour from the passage. An ornate shaped doorhead provides access from the passage to the parlour, and evidence suggests a similar doorway once existed between the hall and the passage. Two further beams span the parlour, one aligned with its rear wall. Collar truss roof trusses are found in the hall and at the rear of the parlour, with broad purlins. A 19th-century staircase rises from the passage. The 19th-century wing contains a rear passage behind the original parlour, and two rooms, both with remnants of cast-iron fireplaces, and one with panelled cupboards flanking the chimney breast.