Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1973. Cottage.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-vestry-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, the Street, Capel
- OS grid reference
- TQ 176 411
- Coordinates
- 51.15727, -0.31951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Capel. It features a timber frame that is clad in a chequerboard pattern of red and blue header brick on the ground floor, with square-ended 'keyed' tile hanging above. The roof is covered with Horsham slabs. There is an offset galleted sandstone rubble and block chimney stack with a corbelled top at the right end of the building. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows on each floor. A central 19th-century door is situated under a shallow gabled hood. There is a pentice at the left end and extending across the rear.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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