Yew Tree Cottage and Yew Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. House.
Yew Tree Cottage and Yew Tree House
- WRENN ID
- solemn-mortar-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage and Yew Tree House, 21 and 23, Silverdale Road, the Yealands
- OS grid reference
- SD 501 755
- Coordinates
- 54.17342, -2.76472
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage and Yew Tree House are two houses from the late 17th century located on Silverdale Road in Yealand Redmayne. The buildings are pebbledashed and topped with slate roofs, standing two storeys high with attics.
Yew Tree House, at No. 23 to the north, features an open-fronted porch supported by two sandstone flags, which partially covers a 4-centred doorhead with a hood mould. The doorway has chamfered jambs and retains its original 17th-century front door, complete with studs and strap hinges. To the left of the porch are two modern windows with plain stone reveals, and a modern window with plain reveals is situated to the right. On the first floor, there are three sash windows with plain reveals. The attic includes a central stone-gabled dormer that has a 4-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window with a hood mould.
Yew Tree Cottage, at No. 21 to the south, consists of a single unit with a wooden porch. To the left of the porch is a window with plain reveals and a limestone lintel, while a sash window with glazing bars is located to the right. The first floor features a similar window. Both houses have chimneys on their gables and between them, with the north chimney displaying a wooden corbelled frame near the apex, linked to the firehood. The north gable also has a one-light chamfered attic window. There is a later wing at the rear of the buildings.
Inside, the north room contains a massive cambered tie beam with blocked brace slots, repurposed as a firehood bressumer. This beam has a mortise for a heck post and remnants of the top rail of a spere.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage and Yew Tree House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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