Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-porch-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, High Street, Whitchurch-On-Thames, RG8 7EX
- OS grid reference
- SU 634 774
- Coordinates
- 51.49222, -1.08814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with a 18th-century front, located on the west side of Whitchurch High Street. The cottage is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, distinguished by flared brick headers. It has a plain tile roof and brick stacks. The building follows a baffle-entry plan, and is single-storey with an attic, originally featuring a two-window front. The central entrance is a four-panel door, sheltered by a lattice porch. There are two-light casement windows to the left and right, each with segmental brick arched heads. Two gabled half-dormers light the attic space. The roof is half-hipped, with a central brick ridge stack dating to the 17th century, and a 19th-century brick stack to the right. The interior of the cottage was not inspected as part of the listing process.
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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- 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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