Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. A C16 Cottage.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-wattle-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Water Lane, Shoreham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 515 609
- Coordinates
- 51.32782, 0.17437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a likely 16th-century timber-framed cottage. It has two storeys and features two windows. The roof is tiled with a returned gable end at the back. The cottage has 19th-century lattice casements and one older casement. There is a modern projecting tiled porch. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is constructed of brick.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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