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Yew Tree Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Tanhouse, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5551 / 53°33'18"N

Longitude: -2.7589 / 2°45'32"W

OS Eastings: 349820

OS Northings: 406762

OS Grid: SD498067

Mapcode National: GBR 9W5B.HB

Mapcode Global: WH86K.LWFZ

Plus Code: 9C5VH64R+2C

Entry Name: Yew Tree Farmhouse

Listing Date: 25 June 1973

Last Amended: 11 August 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1219689

English Heritage Legacy ID: 388982

ID on this website: 101219689

Location: Elmers Green, West Lancashire, WN8

County: Lancashire

District: West Lancashire

Electoral Ward/Division: Tanhouse

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Skelmersdale

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Dalton St Michael and All Angels

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

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Description


SKELMERSDALE

SD40NE ELMERS GREEN LANE 783-1/1/20 (East side) 25/06/73 Yew Tree Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: SKELMERSDALE AND HOLLAND ELMERS GREEN LANE Yew Tree House & adjoining barn)

GV II

Farmhouse with attached barn, (barn not included), now 2 dwellings. Dated 1679 on gable of wing and 1710 on main range, but probably earlier; altered. Coursed sandstone rubble painted white with stone dressings painted black; stone slate roof. Shallow U-plan formed by one-bay hall range with 2-bay cross-wings. One-and-a-half storey main range and 2-storey wings, 1:1:1 windows; with a plinth and 1st floor band to the centre and the left wing, a central doorway with rectangular lintel, flanked by 12-pane top-hung casement windows, a datestone over the door with raised lettering: C/ TE/ 1710, and above this a gabled half-dormer with a window like those below. The left wing has a square casement window on each floor, both with raised sills and the upper with a floating band over it. The right-hand wing has an oblong window on each floor, the lower offset to the left and both with raised sills, thin lintels and altered glazing, and a datestone in the gable with raised lettering: C/ II/ 1679. Ridge chimney at junction with right-hand wing, corner chimney to this wing. Rear has lean-to outshut to main range, and C20 wing. INTERIOR: timber-framed partition walls to the wings; former lateral partition of right-hand wing removed; principal-rafter roof truss with curved principals and superimposed apex.

Listing NGR: SD4982006762

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