A large-ish (~10m) tree was cut down due to it's proximity to a house near mine and I have some small pieces of the timber.
The bark is red, papery, and stringy and the timber has a very strong pepper smell when cut. I managed to find an old dried up piece of the little branches which used to drop everywhere. It had small cones on the end like a conifer of some kind. I got told it may have been a type of spruce. It was likely planted around 50 years ago and the stump is 1m x 0.6m roughly.