Yew Tree is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Yew Tree

WRENN ID
late-rafter-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 January 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Yew Tree, Thaxted, CM6 3PX
OS grid reference
TL 629 310
Coordinates
51.95405, 0.36925
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Tree is a 17th and 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottage, featuring one storey and attics with a half-hipped thatched roof. It has a central ridge line rendered brick stack and an additional brick stack at the east end. There is a lean-to extension with a pantiled roof on the west end and two eyebrow dormers on the south elevation. Inside, the cottage has old plank doors, brick floors, and main ceiling beams that are chamfered and stopped. Originally, it was a two-bay 17th century cottage with an 18th century single bay extension to the east, constructed using re-used timber and featuring a newel-style staircase. The windows are a mix of side-hung small paned wooden casements and metal frames.

Local climate

Yew Tree sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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