Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1976. Cottage.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-corridor-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Reading Road, Purley on Thames
- OS grid reference
- SU 656 761
- Coordinates
- 51.48092, -1.05553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a mid-18th century cottage constructed of flint with red brick dressings and lacing courses. It features a ripped thatched roof with a catslide over the outshot at the rear and a central ridge stack. The cottage has a lobby entrance design and stands two storeys high. On the first floor, there are two 20th-century casement windows, while the ground floor also has two 20th-century casement windows, which are flanked by a central boarded door. This door is accompanied by a 20th-century rustic timber and thatched gabled porch, and the windows have segmental relieving arches and boarded shutters.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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