Yew Tree Cottage and the Forge is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. House.

Yew Tree Cottage and the Forge

WRENN ID
south-cupola-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
House
Address
Yew Tree Cottage and the Forge, Chapel Street, Stoke-By-Clare
OS grid reference
TL 737 434
Coordinates
52.06223, 0.5329
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Tree Cottage and The Forge is a 16th-century house that features a timber frame and plaster exterior, with a jettied upper storey. The building has two storeys and is fitted with casement windows and boarded doors. Its roof is thatched and has gable ends. Notably, there is the base of an octagonal chimney stack located at the east end of the structure.

Local climate

Yew Tree Cottage and the Forge 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 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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