Yew Tree Cottages, Oscott: a 17th-century survivor

Yew Tree Cottages, a listed 17th-century building in Oscott ward, one of the few pre-estate buildings still standing.

A whitewashed cottage range, altered as tenements in the 19th century, surviving among later housing west of Old Oscott.

Notes

Photographer's caption quotes the Grade II listing: 'probably late 17th century in origin, altered in the 19th as tenements'. 'Yewtree Cottages' appear near Malthouse Cottages west of Old Oscott on the 1904 six-inch map in this batch (identification by map comparison: probable). Geograph square SP0693.

About this place: Yew Tree Cottages, Booths Lane