Description

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SP 8533
3/29

BLETCHLEY
CHURCH WALK
Yew Tree Cottage

(Formerly listed as CHURCH GREEN ROAD (South Side) Yew Tree Cottage)

GV
II

C16/C17 timber framed restored cottage with projecting gabled entrance and staircase hall. Thatched roof, lower pitch to west end over what was probably former outhouse. Plastered wattle and daub and brick infill. One storey and first floor in attic. East end later extension. Three wood casements renewed. Three as "eyebrowed" dormers to south front with one other above that at east end. Originally may have been open hall to centre. Staircase hall with entrance C17/C18 and carefully rebuilt recently. Passage created on first floor to five bedrooms. Roof structure largely intact, with purlins and collar trusses. Chamfered bressumers to fireplaces and bread ovens on ground floor.

Yew Tree Cottage forms an important rural group with Well House and Walnut Tree Cottage, Church Green Road.

Listing NGR: SP8584933420

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26418445

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings