Description

HORNBY-WITH-FARLETON MAIN STREET (west side)
SD 56 NE

7/108 No.23 (Yew Tree Cottage)
4-10-1967

GV II

House, 1700. Slobbered rubble with blue slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays.
Windows rebated and chamfered with mullions, with some lights sashed with
glazing bars and some fixed with glazing bars. On the 1st floor they are
of 2 lights. At the left on the ground floor is one of 4 lights. At the
right is a sashed window with stone surround. The door, in the central bay
under an open timber porch, has a chamfered surround with a battlemented
lintel inscribed: 'BW 1700'. Chimneys to left and right. Inside, the
left-hand room has a chamfered firehood bressumer and a shouldered
fireplace with cornice mantel and a moulding which is swept upwards in the
centre of the lintel. To the left is a spice cupboard which has a
shouldered door with marquetry design. The right-hand room has a dentilled
cornice, a built-in corner cupboard with shouldered raised and fielded
panel, and raised and fielded panelling below a dado. The fireplace has a
shouldered timber architrave, a moulded mantel, and a pair of fluted
pilasters above.

Listing NGR: SD5852068315

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26644429

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)