Building record 19/5 - Yew Tree Farm, Kinsey's Lane, Ince

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Slater F G, 1919, A Cheshire Parish: Being a Short History of Ince, p.38 (Book). SCH59.

In his description of Ince Hall (CHER 19/4/1) which lies just to the east of Yew Tree Farm, Slater comments on a drawing made by Omerod (source 3) of the Hall in 1816 which depicts a doorway approached by steps and containing a 'heavily studded wooden door'. He comments that both door and steps have since disappeared but that a similar door exists in the porch of near by Yew Tree Farm and wonders whether it could in fact originate from the Hall.

<3> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (Book). SCH1389.

<4> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England, 1330393 (Web Site). SCH6528.

Yew Tree Farmhouse and attached Shippon, Grade II Listed.
List Description: C17 FARMHOUSE, altered. Brown brick walls in English garden wall bond. Plain projecting band at 1st floor level. Replacement windows in old openings under deep sandstone label-mould lintels. Projecting crow-stepped gabled porch with plain sandstone copings. Deep sandstone label-mould on lintel over outer door- way; replacement hardwood door. C17 inner front door of 3 vertical oak boards with decorated wrought iron hinges and prison nails. Grey Welsh slate main roof, gabled. LATE GEORGIAN SHIPPON, 2 storey, L-shaped, brown English garden wall bond brick walls with squared rubble local sandstone patches. Grey Welsh slate roof continuous with farmhouse. Original doorways with segmental brick arch heads in corner of left and in right wing; sandstone hinge and lock blocks vertically boarded softwood doors. Rectangular pitch-holes to hayloft with segmental brick arched heads and recessed boarded softwood doors. Windows to ground floor and most door openings altered, in keeping.