Description

LEEDS UPPER STREET
TQ 85 SW (east side)

3/118 Yew Tree House
GV II
Hall-house, formerly house row, now house. Late C15 with late
C16 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed, ground floor clad in
red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond, first
floor tile-hung. Late C15 open hall of 2 unequal bays, possibly
with storeyed bay to left, now gone. Integral 2-bay cross-wing
to right. Late C16 two-bay addition to right of cross-wing,
parallel to road. 2 storeys. Roof over hall raised in C19 and
gabled to junction with ridge of wing. Hip of wing continuous
with slope of C19 roof and built up, probably in C19, with ridge
parallel to road. C16 addition has steeper pitch, lower eaves,
hipped to right with gablet. Late C16 red brick stack in front
slope of roof at left end and early C19 stack to right side of
wing. Irregular fenestration of two C19 first-floor casements.
Four C19 ground-floor casements with segmental heads. Ribbed door
in left end of C16 addition. Interior: Crown post to wing with 2
curved downward and 2 upward braces. Half of moulded dais beam
survives carved with small shields alternately bearing portcullis,
Tudor rose and George cross. Plain four-centred arched door-
head beneath beam, spandrels carved with hammer to left and mallet
pursing chisel to right. Tension braces. Large stone fireplace
in left bay of hall with moulded jambs, one corbelled to top.
Exposed timbers.

Listing NGR: TQ8197352712

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26481128

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)