Description

SJ 45 NE ALDERSEY C.P. DOG LANE

5/11 Yew Tree Farmhouse
(formerly listed as
1/3/1967 Yew Tree Farm)

II

Farmhouse 1654, altered to rear. Brick-nogged oak frame with
cross-gable at each end, both rebuilt in brick to rear and with C20
brick lean-to extension to right; part of oak frame removed from left
front gable. Grey slate roof of steep pitch, li storeys, 3 windows.
Massive ridge chimney of brick. Central gabled dormer. Replaced door
of oak boards in opening with slightly arched soffit bears date and
initials J (for John) C (for Cawarden) who married into the Leche
family and initiated the Carden Estate. Early 019 Gothick casements
of wood to front, restored mid C20, with leaded glazing. 2 gabled
dormers to side of right cross-gable.
Interior: Lobby entrance with back-to-back ingle-nooks behind, that to
right with small fire-window, and separate quadrant stair with oak
winders to each side. A third stair (recently rebuilt) from left room
to bedroom over. A stopped ovolo beam over central room, a
stop-chamfered beam over left room and a massive chamfered beam over
right room. Jowled posts, one carved with fleur-de-lys. Internally
the oak frame is almost complete, but comprehensively restored.

Listing NGR: SJ4636755630

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26523679

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  For the Record
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)