Yew Tree Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. A C17 Cottage.
Yew Tree Cottages
- WRENN ID
- gentle-gravel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottages, 1 and 2, Lower Road, Erlestoke
- OS grid reference
- ST 963 539
- Coordinates
- 51.28497, -2.05311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottages is a pair of cottages dating from the late 17th century, built on an earlier core. They are roughcast with a rubble stone plinth, a plain tile roof, and end stacks. The cottages are two storeys high and feature a five-window range of casement pairs, with five windows on the first floor. The ground floor has a central door with a timber hood supported by brackets, two 20th-century casements to the right, and a door with a casement pair to the left. There is a lean-to on the right end wall. The left cottage has a six-panel compartmental ceiling and a bolection-moulded stone fireplace. The right cottage includes a dog-leg stair with a panelled dado, panelled newel posts, and a landing balustrade made of half-column balusters, which are oddly notched.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottages receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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