Yew Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Farmhouse.
Yew Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- young-sill-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Yew Tree Farmhouse, Borrowdale, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 262 137
- Coordinates
- 54.5134, -3.14055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Farmhouse is a late 17th century farmhouse located in Borrowdale, Stonethwaite. It features painted slate rubble walls topped with a graduated greenslate roof and has rebuilt roughcast chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. There is a 20th century door set within a 17th century stone porch that includes side seats. The windows are old fixed-pane casements with glazing bars. An adjoining barn at the rear is not considered of interest.
Local climate
Yew Tree Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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