Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1976. House. 1 related planning application.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-corner-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Sheldwich, ME13 0NQ
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 558
- Coordinates
- 51.26632, 0.8884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 16th-century house located in Sheldwich Lees, near Sheldwich. It was originally listed as numbers 1 and 2 Yew Tree Cottage. The house is timber-framed and mostly clad in painted brick; the original timber frame is visible in the upper right section, filled with plaster. It has a plain tiled roof, with a stack positioned off-centre and two gabled dormers. The single-storey structure includes an attic with a hipped roof. The ground floor features four wooden casement windows, with the leftmost windows having segmental heads, and a half-glazed door set within a central, gabled porch. Catslide outshots extend to the left and rear of the building.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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