Description

BURSCOUGH

SD41SW LIVERPOOL ROAD SOUTH
663-1/2/11 (North West side)
No.143
Yew Tree House

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. c.1800, extended c.1900, and altered.
Handmade brown brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings
and slate roof. Double-depth plan plus added kitchen wing to
rear. Two storeys and attic, 2 windows, almost symmetrical; 2
large windows on each floor, offset slightly left of centre,
all with raised sills and wedge lintels and now with 20-pane
top-hung casements. Gable chimneys, that to the left extruded.
The right-hand gable wall has a round-headed doorway with an
open-pedimented wooden architrave including fluted pilasters
and dentilled lintel, and a fanlight with delicate radiating
tracery. INTERIOR: lateral entrance hall with semi-elliptical
archway, leading to a doglegged staircase with open string,
scrolled brackets, stick balusters and a mahogany handrail
wreathed at the foot. Forms group with No.172 opposite (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4387510987

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579159

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Berkshire (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]