Yew Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Knowsley local planning authority area, England. House.
Yew Tree House
- WRENN ID
- idle-spindle-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Knowsley
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood MP: Derek Twigg (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yew Tree House, Higher Road, Halewood
- OS grid reference
- SJ 441 851
- Coordinates
- 53.36056, -2.84131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree House is a building likely dating from the mid-17th century, with possible earlier elements. It is a simple rectangular house consisting of two rooms and a central passage, and it stands two storeys high. The walls are made of red sandstone, and it has a slate roof. The stone-mullioned windows are mostly four lights with chamfered mullions, and some original windows can still be seen on the rear wall.
Additional wings were constructed around 1780 and 1850 at the end and rear of the house, made of red brick with higher proportions, featuring horizontal sliding sashes and upright sashes. Inside, the older part of the house has low ceiling beams, and the staircase, likely from the 18th century, has had its turned balusters removed but not destroyed. Originally, this house served as a hunting lodge for the Earls of Derby.
Local climate
Yew Tree House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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