Yew Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. House. 1 related planning application.

Yew Tree Farmhouse

WRENN ID
buried-remnant-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Milton Keynes
Constituency
Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 March 1952
Type
House
Address
Yew Tree Farmhouse, 16, Park Road, Sherington, MK16 9PG
OS grid reference
SP 892 467
Coordinates
52.11173, -0.69807
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Tree Farmhouse is a house dated 1595 that has been altered and extended to the south. It is constructed of coursed rubblestone and features an old tile roof. The building has three bays and a centrally located staircase tower at the rear, standing two storeys high with an attic. At the back, there is a modern flat-roofed two-storey addition, and to the south, there is a late 17th-century single-storey cottage with two bays.

The west elevation has a central entrance that features a modern open gabled porch supported by posts. The windows are 19th-century triple casements with a single horizontal central glazing bar. The gables are coped, and there are end stacks. The cottage has a central door with a tile-roofed porch and similar windows.

At the rear, the staircase tower has timber mullioned two-light windows on the first and second floors, which have heavy chamfers dating from 1595. There is also a two-light mullioned window on the south side for a first-floor room, also from 1595. Inside, there are heavily chamfered door frames leading into the stair tower, and the first floor features cross beams and spine beams with heavy chamfers and moulded stops. It appears that the upper floor was originally open from end to end. The ground floor also has similarly stopped and chamfered cross-beams, and the roof structure from 1595 remains intact. On the west front, flanking the first-floor central window, are two stone plaques; the left one features a fleur-de-lys, while the right one is inscribed with '1595'.

Local climate

Yew Tree Farmhouse 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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