Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. A C17-early C18 House.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-rotunda-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Benham's Lane, Fawley
- OS grid reference
- SU 758 867
- Coordinates
- 51.57425, -0.90687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a house dating from the 17th to early 18th century. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill, a flint plinth, and a plain tile roof. There is an external brick chimney on the left side, partially whitewashed, which has an oven at the rear. The cottage is one storey with an attic and consists of two bays. It has 20th-century paired barred wooden casements, with those in the attic located in gabled eaves-line dormers. To the right, there is a 20th-century canted bay window. The central entrance has a 20th-century glazed door topped by a small tiled hood. Additionally, there is a 20th-century whitewashed brick bay set back to the left.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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