Yew Tree Cottage Yew Tree Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1966. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Yew Tree Cottage Yew Tree Cottages

WRENN ID
brooding-mantel-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1966
Type
Cottage
Address
Yew Tree Cottage Yew Tree Cottages, 1 and 2, Main Street, Chalvington with Ripe, BN8 6AW
OS grid reference
TQ 509 101
Coordinates
50.87077, 0.14383
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Yew Tree Cottage is a T-shaped building dating from the 15th century. It features timber framing that has been refaced with red brick on the ground floor, while the upper part is tile-hung. The rear of the building retains some exposed timbering and close-studding. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, covered with tiles. The cottage has casement windows and a single doorway with double doors made of six fielded panels. At the back, there is a brick chimney breast. The building has two storeys and four windows in total. Number 3 Yew Tree Cottage includes an 18th-century addition that adds one window bay in red brick.

Local climate

Yew Tree Cottage Yew Tree Cottages receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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  • Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
  • 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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