Yellow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Cottage.

Yellow Cottage

WRENN ID
idle-timber-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Lindsey
Constituency
Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Yellow Cottage, Church Lane, West Keal
OS grid reference
TF 369 634
Coordinates
53.15101, 0.04573
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yellow Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located on the west side of Church Lane in West Keal. The building features a colourwashed mud and stud construction with some brick underbuilding and has a pantile roof. It has a lobby entry plan and is a single storey plus garret structure. The front has three bays, with a central half-glazed door flanked by two light glazing bar sliding sash windows. Inside, there are beams with run-out stops, some visible posts, and a fireplace.

Local climate

Yellow Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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