Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1975. Cottage.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-spire-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Brington and Molesworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 084 759
- Coordinates
- 52.37106, -0.40836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a cottage dating from the early to mid 16th century, with alterations and extensions from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed with plastered infill and features red brick upper courses to a limestone ridge stack. The cottage has a hipped thatched roof with a pantiled outshut. It stands two storeys high with an attic and consists of three original timber-framed bays, each with ogee braces, plus an additional bay to the east.
On the south elevation, there is an early 19th-century door set in a small closed porch with a tiled roof. The ground floor has three sixteen-paned hung sash windows, while the first floor features four twelve-paned windows. Inside, there is a limestone stack that may date to the early 17th century, complete with chamfered jambs and a mantel beam over the hearth in the west room. The exposed floor frame showcases stop-chamfered cross beams.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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