Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Cottage.

Yew Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
long-pedestal-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1981
Type
Cottage
Address
Yew Tree Cottage, Mill Road, Brockdish
OS grid reference
TM 194 797
Coordinates
52.37193, 1.22196
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Tree Cottage is a late 17th century timber-frame cottage located on Brockdish Mill Road in Thorpe Abbotts. The exterior is roughcast, topped with a steep new tiled roof featuring gabled ends. It has a central brick chimney stack and two modern gables. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has modern two-light casements with glazing bars. There is a boarded door on the left side.

Local climate

Yew Tree Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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