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Description: Nos. 1 and 2 Yew Trees

Address: Yew Trees St Giles Road Lightcliffe Brighouse Calderdale

Grade: II

Group detail: St. Giles Road

Full description:
House in 2 occupations. Mid to late C17. Cross-wing with late C18 alterations to hall range. Thin coursed hammer-dressed stone, rendered to sides and rear, stone slate roof. Hall and cross-wing plan. 2 storeys with single storey outshut to rear of hall range. 2 room south front of 2 bays. 1st bay is remainder of hall range of late C18 possibly replacing earlier timbered hall to which was added a cross-wing in C17. To this bay are flat faced mullioned windows of 5 lights to each floor, the centre light of which is slightly wider than others. Tall paired doorways with composite jambs abut cross-wing with 2-light window over. 2nd bay forms cross-wing which projects. Return wall has small chamfered window (solid). Coped gable with kneelers and double chamfered mullioned and transomed windows of 12-lights to ground floor (having lost transoms, now forming 3 large windows) and 10 lights to 1st floor. Right hand return wall has tall lateral stack with off-sets and double chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds of 6 lights with 5 lights over, flanked by 2-light windows to each floor. Rear has coped gables, kneelers and gable stack. Cat slide roof to single storey outshut. G. Hepworth, Brighouse, its scenery and antiquities, (Halifax 1885) p.25. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse, (Brighouse 1978), p.20.