NHER 12419 (Building record) - Yew Tree Farm
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
Location
| Map sheet | TM19SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | FORNCETT, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Yew Tree Farm, or Williams's Manor. Low Road.
A Wealden type house built between 1475 to 1550.
Information from (S1).
Informant [1] notes a screens passage and Jacobean plaster ceiling.
This is not Fir Tree Farm, as called in (S2).
October 1979.
The central arched brace common to this type of house has gone. The pantile roof is recent.
E. Rose (NLA), 17 October 1979.
June 1981, Listed, Grade II*.
Listing Description:
Plastered timber frame. Floors at each end are jettied. Steep hipped roof. Two storeys and attics. 19th century casements. Screens passage with screen and wall to service room.
Information from (S6).
D. Robertson (NLA), 8 December 2005.
(S3) in file.
April 2003. Building survey.
The scarf joint in the rear wallplate and the decoration on the service doorheads suggests a fourteenth to sixteenth century date.
See (S4) for further details
December 2005.
In (S5), revised version of (S2), is called Yew Tree Farm.
D. Robertson (NLA), 8 December 2005.
Associated Sources (8)
- --- SNF72373 Monograph: Longcroft, A., Brown, S. & Forrest, R.. 2009. The Tacolneston Project: A study of historic buildings in the Claylands of South Norfolk.. Journal of the Norfolk Historic Buildings Group. Vol 4. pp 128-132.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF56706 Archive: Bolingbroke family. 1300's-1960. Bolingbroke Collection. Norfolk Record Office.
- <S2> SNF7580 Monograph: Pevsner, N. 1962. North-West and South Norfolk. The Buildings of England. 1st Edition. p 163.
- <S3> SNF53929 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2004. Tas Valley treasure. 18 June.
- <S4> SNF72329 Unpublished Document: Brown, M and Brown, S.. 2003. NHBG report. Building recording of Yew Tree Farm, Forncett St. Mary.
- <S5> SNF7576 Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 342.
- <S6> SNF48662 Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1152706.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)
Object Types (0)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Jun 26 2017 1:42PM