Ye Olde Yew Tree Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Inn.
Ye Olde Yew Tree Inn
- WRENN ID
- burning-tracery-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Ye Olde Yew Tree Inn, Westbere Lane
- OS grid reference
- TR 193 610
- Coordinates
- 51.30607, 1.1463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ye Olde Yew Tree Inn is a 15th century timber-framed building located on the south side of Westbere Lane. It features plaster infilling and diagonal braces on the ground floor. The first floor of the easternmost window bay extends out over the ends of the floor joists, supported by a moulded dragon post. The building has a hipped tiled roof and stands two storeys high, with three casement windows. On the right side, there is an original arched wooden doorcase with blank spandrels. The east front is finished with plaster on the ground floor and tarred weatherboarding above.
Local climate
Ye Olde Yew Tree Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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