Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Hall-house.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tilted-quoin-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Hall-house
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Rooting Lane, Little Chart
- OS grid reference
- TQ 951 454
- Coordinates
- 51.17521, 0.78996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is likely a timber-framed hall-house dating from the 15th to 16th century. It has been refaced with red brick on a base of stone rubble. The cottage features a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof with an off-centre brick chimney stack. It is two storeys high and has four Dering windows.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- No related consent applications matched
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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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