Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. Cottage.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-footing-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, 76, Hill Street, Hilperton
- OS grid reference
- ST 872 594
- Coordinates
- 51.33416, -2.18445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage located at the end of a row on Hilperton Hill Street. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with brick stacks at the gable ends. The cottage has a two-storey, three-window south front, which includes three 16-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors, topped with a moulded cornice and a plain blocking course. The right side of the cottage has a gable end facing the road, with a 20th-century door that has a flat stone hood supported by brackets. To the right of the door is a small 4-pane sash window, and above, there is a plat band at the first floor level with two 4-pane sashes and a small sash window in the attic. The rear of the cottage also features 16-pane sashes.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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