Yew Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1991. Farmhouse.
Yew Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- salt-outpost-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Leigh and Atherton MP: Jo Platt (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Yew Tree Farmhouse, Carr Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 651 978
- Coordinates
- 53.47637, -2.52668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse that was altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of red brick and has a Welsh slate roof. The building features a twin-gabled front with two storeys and a double-depth layout. The door, located to the left of the centre, has an overlight and a later brick arch. The left gable, which was rebuilt around 1950, has three-light casement windows on each floor, and the gable is decorated with three hearts made from raised headers. The right gable retains its original brickwork and has similar windows, with the upper window set beneath an original hoodmould and also featuring three hearts.
The farmhouse has lateral stacks, with the right stack being cement-rendered and rising from a lean-to addition. At the rear, there are five 20th-century casements similar to those at the front. The ground-floor left window is beneath an original hoodmould that extends to cover a blocked doorway on the right, while the other windows show traces of original hoodmoulds. To the left of the valley, there is a small blocked window with an arched head, and to the right, there is an intact brick-mullioned window with two lights. The left return has been rebuilt, although the lateral stack is made of old brickwork.
Inside, the farmhouse features beamed ceilings visible in three ground-floor rooms, an old oak door beneath the stairs, and a staircase with contemporary turned balusters, square newels, and ball finials. There is also resisted panelling at the top of the stair and principal-rafter trusses. The farmhouse is approached via Hand Lane.
Local climate
Yew Tree Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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