Yew Tree Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House. 2 related planning applications.
Yew Tree Cottages
- WRENN ID
- fossil-railing-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottages, the Street, Elmsett, IP7 6NA
- OS grid reference
- TM 055 465
- Coordinates
- 52.07951, 0.99871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottages is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 15th to 16th centuries, originally constructed as a hall house. The roof is tiled, featuring a ridge chimney stack. The windows are casement style, some of which are original. A central gabled porch has been added more recently. The interior retains cambered tie beams with arched braces and crown posts.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottages 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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