Yewtree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Yewtree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-transept-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yewtree Cottage, Plums Lane, the Salings, CM7 5EH
- OS grid reference
- TL 691 275
- Coordinates
- 51.92086, 0.45845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yewtree Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The cottage has central and left-hand chimney stacks made of red brick. It is two storeys high, featuring a five-window front with small, multi-paned casement windows. A gabled porch with red tiles is positioned on the left, and a 20th-century vertically boarded door with a light is centrally placed. A lean-to garage extension with red pantiles has been added. A bakehouse is located at the rear of the property.
Local climate
Yewtree 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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