Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-footing-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Goldon Row, Whipsnade, LU6 2LG
- OS grid reference
- TL 009 179
- Coordinates
- 51.85142, -0.53631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century cottage, later modernised. The ground floor is built of red brick and the first floor is timber-framed with brick nogging. It is two storeys in height and has an old clay tile roof. There are five double-casement windows. A 19th-century wing extends from the rear.
Local climate
Yew Tree 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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