Description from record TR 04 NE 31 :
(TR 05714676) Yew Trees (NAT) (1) Yew Trees Scotton St. On the Salvage List called "Tudor House opposite Rock Cottages, Scotton Street". Timber-framed building with plaster infilling to the ground floor, and herring-bone brick nogging to the first floor which oversails on a moulded bressummer and carved scroll brackets with curved braces. The eaves overhang on similar brackets. Half hipped tiled roof. Case, ws. with diamond-shaped leaded panes. On the ground floor are 2 bays built on bases of flints and brick and containing ws. of 2 tiers of 7 lights with wooden mullions and transoms, also 7 small ws. The first floor has 2 similar oriel ws. on similar brackets and 7 small ws. (2)

Yew Trees, an outstanding well preserved timber-framed house of circa 1600, a date of 1605 appears on a rainwater-head set in the east wall. (3)

Yew Trees (Listed Grade II*) [Full archaeological description] (4)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 0446 0546 WYE SCOTTON STREET (south side)
8/295 Yew Trees 13.10.52 GV II*
House. Circa 1600 (dated 1605). Timber framed and exposed with small panel framing with plaster infill on ground floor and brick herringbone nogging on 1st floor. Plain tiled roof. Four framed bay lobby entry plan. Two storeys on plinth with continuous jetty with moulded bressumer on scrolled console brackets, and with moulded eaves bressumer also on scrolled consoles. Half- hipped roof with moulded stack cluster to centre. Almost continuous range of windows on both floors, with 2 light mullioned windows to left, to right and to centre and 5 light mullioned and transomed oriels to centre left and to centre right on brackets, with mullioned side lights, the pattern repeated on the ground floor (bays rather than oriels) and with central plank and stud door in moulded surround. Catslide outshot to rear. Dated 1605 (genuine?) on rainwater hopper on left return. Remarkably well preserved (See B.O.E. Kent II, 507). Listing NGR: TR0570846761 (5)

<1> OS 1:2500 1975 (OS Card Reference). SKE48217.

<2> DOE(HHR) Dist of E Ashford RD Kent July 1955 68 (OS Card Reference). SKE40964.

<3> Bldgs of Eng NE and E Kent 1983 507 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37829.

<4> DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16 February 1989, (128) (OS Card Reference). SKE40480.

<5> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.