The Yew Tree Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. A C17 Cottage, restaurant.
The Yew Tree Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- slow-tower-torch
- 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
- Cottage, restaurant
- Address
- The Yew Tree Restaurant, Borrowdale, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 244 137
- Coordinates
- 54.51362, -3.16814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Yew Tree Restaurant, originally known as Yew Tree Cottage with an adjoining barn, is a cottage that has been converted into a restaurant. It is dated 1628 above the entrance. The building features painted rendered walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which has a rebuilt slate chimney stack. It stands two storeys high and has four bays. The former plank doorway is located within a slate-slab gabled porch, while a modern 20th-century door is positioned to the right in a plain opening, with a dated panel above it. The windows are casement style, including a smaller fire window to the left, and Yorkshire-sash windows, all set in plain reveals. Inside, the ground-floor ceiling is beamed.
Local climate
The Yew Tree Restaurant sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
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