Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-nave-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Whixall
- OS grid reference
- SJ 506 331
- Coordinates
- 52.89376, -2.73473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the early 17th century and was altered and extended in the late 20th century. The building is timber framed with rendered infill and has a machine tile roof. Originally, it had an end baffle-entry plan with three framed bays, which was extended by one bay to the left in the late 20th century. The cottage has one storey and an attic.
The framing features square and rectangular panels with three sections from the cill to the wall-plate and short straight tension braces. The late 20th-century windows include latticed casements set within the framing, with one window to the left and two to the right of a contemporary gabled porch that has a half-glazed door. Above the casements, there are three gabled eaves dormers. To the far left, there is an infilled segmental-headed doorway. The late 20th-century addition includes one casement and one dormer.
There is a reddish-brown chimney stack located behind the ridge at the junction between the 17th-century part and the 20th-century addition, as well as a similar external end stack to the right. The interior was not accessible during the last survey in March 1986, but it was noted that the timber frame remains largely intact, including the cross-walls, and features chamfered ceiling beams. The prominent late 20th-century additions to the rear are not considered to have special architectural interest.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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