Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. A C15 House.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-nave-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Christopher Row, Lynsted with Kingsdown
- OS grid reference
- TQ 941 595
- Coordinates
- 51.30182, 0.78338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a house dating from the 15th century. It has a timber frame that is exposed with plaster infill and features a plain tiled roof. The building is one storey high with an attic and showcases large panelled framing and arched bracing. The roof is hipped to the left and includes two gabled dormers, along with a stack positioned to the centre left. On the ground floor, there are three small lights, a board door with sidelights, and one wood casement set within a 20th-century catslide porch located to the centre left.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% 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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