Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. Cottage.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-gateway-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, High Street, Long Wittenham
- OS grid reference
- SU 547 939
- Coordinates
- 51.64141, -1.2106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the 16th century, with a 18th-century cross-wing and 19th-century additions. It features cruck framing and is constructed of red brick with grey headers in a Flemish bond pattern. The roof is made of old plain tiles and is half-hipped to the right. The building has an L-plan layout with the cross-wing on the left side. It is a single-storey structure with an attic and has a two-window range. There is a ribbed door leading to a lean-to porch at the junction of the cross-wing on the left. The cottage has two horizontal sash windows and a 19th-century three-light casement window with a segmental brick head on the right return of the cross-wing. There are also two gabled dormers. Inside, there is a cruck truss at the right gable end and a cruck truss blade in the center of the first floor. The cross-wing features queen post roof trusses. The ground floor on the right has a chamfered spine beam and joists. The 19th-century additions are located on the left and at the rear right of the cottage.
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 81% 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 62% 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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