Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-roof-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Baldon Row, Toot Baldon, OX44 9NE
- OS grid reference
- SP 566 000
- Coordinates
- 51.69608, -1.1817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a house dating from the mid-to-late 18th century, with later extensions added in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The construction is primarily brick, with some limestone ashlar dressings and flared brick headers, and a plain-tile roof with brick gable stacks. The original house was built on a 2-unit plan and has subsequently been extended. The front facade has three windows and is constructed of chequer brick, featuring an ashlar plinth, quoins, a storey band, and a moulded cornice. The outer bays contain 2-light casement windows, framing a central doorway with a 6-panel door, which sits below a small segmental-arched casement window. All window and door openings are defined by moulded stone architraves. A plain brick range forms the rear of the property, and a 20th-century extension is situated to the left. The interior includes a cellar with heavy beams and a spring. Graffiti on the right gable wall indicates dates of 1773 and 1778, marked as “AF 1778”.
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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2016
- 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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