Description

SE2628SW LS27 BANK STREET
MORLEY (north side)

7/13 Nos 78
(Swindon House)
19.8.85 and 80
(Yew Tree Cottage)

II

House, now in 2 occupations. Probably mid-late C17, with mid C19 added cell
to rear. Large dressed stone faced in rough-cast to front, stone slate roof.
2 storeys. 2-cell double-depth plan. 2 gabled front. Each cell has doorway
to left of 2-light sash window in double-chamfered surround, probably originally
of 4 lights with same above. Coped gables with kneelers, blocked niches to
apices and ball finials. Return walls have 2 transverse coped gables with
brick stack to ridge of front gables.

Attached to front is C20 plaque inscribed:-

" YEW TREE HOUSE
BUILT ABOUT 1650 BY RICHARD HUNTINGTON. LATER
THE RESIDENCE OF DOROTHY WALLER DAUGHTER OF
EDMUND WALLER, THE RESTORATION WET, SHE DIED
18th JANUARY, 1717. "

The house also of Corporal Crowther executed after the Farnley Wood Plot of 1663.
Unoccupied at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE2629828223

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26480643

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)