York Historic Environment Record

The origins of a farmstead at The Yews appear to lie in chicory farming and drying as the first edition Ordnance Survey map, published 1854, labels the site as a ‘Chicory Kiln’. The site is not identified in street or trade directories, nor in census returns and there is no surviving evidence of a kiln structure above ground. Yews Cottage, The Barn and possibly also The Granary building to the rear of the cottage date to this mid-19th century farm. A phase of expansion occurred in the mid-late 19th century when a larger farmhouse (called The Yews) replaced an earlier farm building and both Yews Cottage and The Yews are labelled on the 1893 Ordnance Survey map as the dwellings associated with the farmstead. The next major phase of works occurred in the c.1960s when between the 1958 and 1967-1970 Ordnance Survey maps a Piggery extended the farmstead to the west and replaced a 19th century range of farm buildings along the former western boundary. Also in this period the Stables attached to the north of The Yews were built as were an Open Cattle Shed and silos in the adjacent Shed to the north that extended the historic farmstead to the north and led to the formation of another farmyard. The original farmyard to the north of Yews Cottage was covered with a roof structure.

The 19th century farm buildings and rural dwellings (traditional vernacular character using a mainly traditional and limited palette of materials and construction methods) Yews Cottage and The Barn and The Granary to the rear and The Yews have a local level of architectural, historical and/or landscape interest.