Listed Building: YEW TREE COTTAGE (279582)

WYVERSTONE MILL ROAD (NORTH SIDE) TM 06 NW 4/126 Yew Tree Cottage - II House, conceived as a folly/eyecatcher. 1831 for Rev. W.C. Steggall, altered C20. Mixed timber frame, brick, flint and clay lump rubble, all rendered. Thatched and pantiled roofs. Picturesque style. Cruciform plan; 2 storey unequal octagon with 1 storey wings from 2 long sides. To left short end of octagon a blocked entrance with a pedimental hoodboard, above a stone with a crowned lion mask, probably from Westhorpe Hall, The Green, Westhorpe Civil Parish (q.v.). On first floor a 2-light glazing bar flush frame casement with date 1831 on lintel, pedimental hood. Canted returns have ground floor 2- light casements with pedimental hoods. Opposite on right short end of octagon a disused architraved boarded door with a pedimental hood, above another reused stone from Westhorpe Hall, a 2-light casement with 'WCS' in lintel, pedimental hood, canted returns as to left. Pyramidal thatched roof with central axial white brick ridge stack. 1 storey wings have hipped pantiled roofs, an entrance in a C20 porch to right, returns have casements with pedimental hoods. Interior not inspected. Almost certainly designed to be seen from the then new Rectory, now The Manor, Rectory Road (q.v.). Listing NGR: TM0346267522