Yew Tree Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Farmhouse.

Yew Tree Farm

WRENN ID
waning-brick-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Yew Tree Farm, 10, Chipperfield Road, Bovingdon
OS grid reference
TL 016 035
Coordinates
51.72111, -0.5292
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Tree Farm is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It dates from the 17th century, with a parallel rear extension added in the mid-19th century. The building features a timber frame that is covered in red brickwork, and the upper floor at the front is tile-hung with bands of scalloped tiles. The roof is steep and made of old red tiles, with bellcast front eaves.

The house is two stories high and has a two-cell layout with an internal chimney and a lobby entry plan, facing north with a lower rear extension. The front is asymmetrical, with two windows on each floor and small gables above the upper windows. The first-floor windows are 18th-century three-light flush casements with iron opening casements. The west end has been rebuilt in red brick.

At the southwest, there is a single-storey rear wing that is dark weatherboarded and tiled. A pump is located on the rear wall, and there is a well in the rear garden. Inside, the timber frame creates a large west room with an axial beam, a short chimney bay, and a narrow east room that has been enlarged by cutting back the old large chimney and altering the partition to the entrance lobby. The interior features 17th-century panelling with strapwork decoration, and part of a 17th-century staircase with turned balusters remains. The beams are chamfered and have stops.

Local climate

Yew Tree Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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