Yew Trees is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. Cottage pair. 1 related planning application.

Yew Trees

WRENN ID
brooding-bailey-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1984
Type
Cottage pair
Address
Yew Trees, the Street, Godmersham, CT4 7DU
OS grid reference
TR 067 506
Coordinates
51.21792, 0.95876
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Trees is a mid-19th century cottage pair that has been converted into a house. It features painted brick construction and a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high and has a hipped roof with a dogtooth cornice and end stacks on both the left and right sides. At the center, there is a two-storey projecting porch with a gabled roof supported by kneelers. The windows are arranged regularly, with three wooden casements on the first floor, each with labels above, and two on the ground floor, alongside a panelled door located in the porch.

Local climate

Yew Trees receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 1 transaction since 2024
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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