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
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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