Yew Tree Farmhouse (Mary Mason's Tea House) is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. Farmhouse, tea house.
Yew Tree Farmhouse (Mary Mason's Tea House)
- WRENN ID
- silent-baluster-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse, tea house
- Address
- Yew Tree Farmhouse (Mary Mason's Tea House), Beckley Road, Northiam
- OS grid reference
- TQ 829 226
- Coordinates
- 50.97423, 0.60446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Farmhouse, also known as Mary Mason's Tea House, is a restored 16th-century building that features a timber frame with close-studding and plaster infilling. The ground floor has been rebuilt using red brick with grey headers. The building has a central projecting gable that includes an attic window, carved bargeboards, and a pendant. It is topped with a hipped tiled roof and has casement windows. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a two-storeyed bay in the center of the front, with a total of three windows.
Local climate
Yew Tree Farmhouse (Mary Mason's Tea House) 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 greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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