Yew Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. House.
Yew Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-flint-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yew Cottage, Wootton
- OS grid reference
- SP 484 020
- Coordinates
- 51.71468, -1.2994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Cottage is a house that dates back to the late medieval period, with remodels in the 17th century and alterations and extensions made in the 1970s. The building features cruck framing and is constructed from coursed limestone rubble, topped with a gabled thatch roof and a ridge stack made of stone finished in brick. It was originally a hall house, with a floor and stack added in the 17th century. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with a three-window range that includes a 20th-century extension to the left of the gable end of the original range. There are flat stone arches above the 20th-century door and casement windows. Inside, notable features include a 17th-century chamfered beam and an open fireplace. The late medieval raised cruck structure has halvings for collars and spurs and is trenched for through purlins, although these have all been removed.
Local climate
Yew 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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