Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-terrace-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Main Street, Tilton on the Hill and Halstead, LE7 9LF
- OS grid reference
- SK 743 054
- Coordinates
- 52.64157, -0.90266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on the east side of Main Street in Tilton on the Hill. The building is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble with a Welsh slate roof. It has a two-unit plan and is two storeys high. A doorway is centrally positioned on the left side, featuring a voussoir lintel and a drop-ended hoodmould. There are casement windows; two lights to the left of the door and three to the right of the door, all renewed. Two upper windows are also 2-light casements. A brick axial stack is present. The cottage is listed for its group value.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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