Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. Cottage.

Yew Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
winding-outpost-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Yew Tree Cottage, Pontesbury
OS grid reference
SJ 407 056
Coordinates
52.64514, -2.87744
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Tree Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th century, with later additions and alterations. It features a timber frame set on a rendered stone plinth with plastered infill and has a corrugated iron roof that has replaced the original thatch. The cottage is one storey with an attic and consists of three framed bays. The framing includes three square panels from the cill to the wall-plate and short straight tension braces. The windows are arranged irregularly, with one late 19th-century casement window on either side of a slightly left-of-centre entrance, which has a rectangular overlight above it. There are gabled eaves dormers above the entrance, and a 20th-century casement window to the right. A slightly later timber-framed lean-to is attached to the left-hand gable end.

Local climate

Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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