Yew Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.

Yew Cottage

WRENN ID
sacred-storey-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Three Rivers
Constituency
South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1985
Type
House
Address
Yew Cottage, Kitters Green, Abbots Langley, WD5 0ET
OS grid reference
TL 093 017
Coordinates
51.70355, -0.41941
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with an extension added in the late 18th century. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick nogging and some roughcast areas, topped by a tiled roof. The building has a three-bay lobby entry and stands two storeys tall. The central entrance includes a two-panelled door with a hood above it. To the left of the entrance is a three-light casement window that has been extended to five lights, while to the right and on the first floor are three-light casements, all featuring leaded lights. The exposed framing shows large panels and braces, and there is a central axial stack. The left gable end is roughcast, while the right gable end is rendered with weatherboarding above the ground floor and has an attic casement. There is a catslide roof over the original lean-to outshut at the rear right. To the rear left, there is a late 18th-century wing made of whitewashed brick with a gable end stack. Extending further to the rear is a one-storey outbuilding with a slate roof. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Yew Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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