Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-panel-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, 1-4, the Street, Pluckley, TN27 0QS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 926 453
- Coordinates
- 51.17481, 0.75404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is an L-shaped building located on the south-west side of The Street, Pluckley. While the exterior is of the 18th century, the southern cottage and likely the entire block are older underneath. It is constructed of red brick with grey headers, with the south-east wall of the southern cottage displaying stone rubble on the ground floor and tile hanging above. The roof is hipped and tiled. The windows are Dering windows, with five facing north-east and two facing south-east. There are two doorways with round-headed tympana, each featuring painted keyblocks at the angles and head. Additional doorcases are present on the side elevations.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- 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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