Yew Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Yew Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- cold-roof-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Yew Tree Farmhouse, Main Street, Kirton, NG22 9LP
- OS grid reference
- SK 690 693
- Coordinates
- 53.21668, -0.96763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century and 19th century. It features a timber frame with brick nogging, which has been rendered in the 20th century, and has a steeply pitched roof covered with interlocking tiles. The building has a single gable and a single ridge stack, and it is two storeys high with garrets, arranged in three bays. The layout is L-shaped, with a baffle entry.
The east front has an off-centre 20th-century door with a segmental head, flanked on the left by two 20th-century casement windows and on the right by a single 20th-century casement. Above, there are three 20th-century casements. The south gable retains a remnant of a Yorkshire sash window in the garret. The rear elevation includes 19th-century lean-to additions made of brick with pantile roofs, located in the return angle and to the west of the rear wing. The left lean-to features a close boarded door in plain jambs, while the right side has two 20th-century casements. Above, to the left, there is a 20th-century Yorkshire sash and a 20th-century casement, with two Yorkshire sashes of different sizes to their right. The rear wing has 20th-century windows and retains remnants of a leaded Yorkshire sash above.
Inside, the farmhouse has a principal rafter roof with clasp purlins, three jowled bay posts, and chamfered span beams and joists. The north end features a 17th-century oak winder stair that extends to the garret, complete with square 19th-century newels and stick balusters. The south end has an early 19th-century winder stair in a square well, with turned newels, stick balusters, and an oval moulded handrail. Additionally, there is a single early 19th-century hob grate and two 17th-century and three 18th-century plank doors.
Local climate
Yew Tree Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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