Yew Tree Cottage and Attached Brick Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1986. House, farmhouse.

Yew Tree Cottage and Attached Brick Barn

WRENN ID
riven-hinge-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1986
Type
House, farmhouse
Address
Yew Tree Cottage and Attached Brick Barn, Brington and Molesworth
OS grid reference
TL 071 759
Coordinates
52.37137, -0.42704
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Tree Cottage, formerly a farmhouse, dates from the early 17th century and has 19th-century additions. The building is timber-framed and roughcast rendered, with some exposed timber framing on the ground floor and a plastered plinth. It features thatched and slated roofs, and a limestone rubble ridge stack that has been rebuilt in gault brick. The house is two storeys high and has a three-unit plan. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows and a rectangular bay window to the right of a four-panelled door.

Inside, the cottage showcases exposed timber framing, stop-chamfered ceiling beams, and open hearths with mantel beams, along with some 19th-century details. To the left of the house is a brick barn with a slated roof and a dentil brick eaves cornice that continues around a one-bay extension to the right. The barn features a segmental brick arch with a cast iron plaque dated 1857 and double boarded doors. To the right, there are double coach house doors with a casement window above, and a first-floor oriel window in the extension with horizontal sliding sash windows below.

Local climate

Yew Tree Cottage and Attached Brick Barn 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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