Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1988. House.

Yew Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
swift-lead-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Folkestone and Hythe
Constituency
Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1988
Type
House
Address
Yew Tree Cottage, Stone Street, Stelling Minnis
OS grid reference
TR 136 489
Coordinates
51.19998, 1.05722
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Tree Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th or 17th century. It is timber framed with exposed framing and brick infilling. The ground floor features red brick in Flemish bond on the left end of the front elevation, while the left gable end is made of flint. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The cottage consists of approximately four timber-framed bays and stands two storeys high on a flint plinth.

There is a continuous jetty with a shaped bracket between the right-central and right end bays, as well as a jetty at the left end. The framing has broadly-spaced studding, arranged in two panels up to the storey height, with tension braces and long shaped jowls on the left gable end. The roof is hipped, and there is a multiflue stack located to the left of centre, possibly at the left end of the left-central bay.

The cottage has irregular fenestration with three casements: one two-light window at each end and a three-light window to the right of the stack. A small shaped bracket is positioned under the three-light casement, likely intended for a now-missing oriel window. The entrance features a boarded door located under the stack. There is also a brick lean-to at the rear on the left side. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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