Yew Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. A 17th century Farmhouse.
Yew Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- grim-jade-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- 17th century
- Address
- Yew Tree Farmhouse, Wem Rural
- OS grid reference
- SJ 519 315
- Coordinates
- 52.87956, -2.71496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been altered in the late 18th century, with later additions and modifications. It is shown on the Ordnance Survey map as Yew Tree House. The building features painted brick that largely conceals or replaces the original timber frame, topped with a plain tile roof that has crow-stepping on the left gable end. The layout consists of a three-unit baffle-entry plan, with a half-length brick lean-to at the rear. The farmhouse is one storey with an attic and has a dentilled eaves cornice.
The front has late 19th-century casement windows with 18th-century segmental heads, including one window to the left and two to the right of a four-panel door, which is sheltered by a late 19th-century open gabled porch supported by cast-iron columns. There are also late 19th-century gabled eaves dormers directly above the right windows. A reddish-brown chimney stack is located immediately behind the ridge to the left of the entrance. The right gable end has exposed timber-framed square panels, although these are now mostly concealed by an attached 19th-century farm building that is not of special architectural interest. Additionally, there is a 19th-century single-storey brick lean-to on the left gable end.
Inside, the farmhouse features chamfered spine beams and heavy joists in the two main ground-floor rooms. There is a massive stack, stepped on the first floor, with a rebuilt inglenook fireplace in the left ground-floor room, and a dog-leg staircase located behind the stack in the right room. The roof structure consists of a single-purlin design with straight windbraces, and the collar and tie beam are exposed at the first truss from the left.
Local climate
Yew Tree Farmhouse 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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