Description

The Yews, East Street
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ST4619
MARTOCK CP
EAST STREET (South side)

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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 (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, November 1976).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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26520357

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)