Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-storey-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, 5, Drury Lane, Melbourn, SG8 6EP
- OS grid reference
- TL 387 449
- Coordinates
- 52.0855, 0.02366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that was extended around 1984. It features a timber frame, rendered exterior, and some clay bat, topped with a long straw thatch roof and an axial red brick ridge stack. The original plan likely consisted of two rooms with a possible lobby entry. The cottage was converted into two separate dwellings in the 19th century and is now a single home. It has one storey and an attic, with a dormer that has a pantiled roof. There are two doorways and windows, all from the mid-20th century. The two-storey extension added in 1984 is on the right side. Inside, the rear wall is framed, while other parts of the cottage have thicker walls indicating a clay bat structure. The inglenook fireplace is made of painted brick, and the main beam and joists are set on edge and chamfered.
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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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