Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. House.

Yew Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
standing-postern-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Yew Tree Cottage, Sheep Street, Winslow, MK18 3HN
OS grid reference
SP 772 275
Coordinates
51.94086, -0.87773
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Tree Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century, with an extension added to the left at a later date. There is a plaque on the left gable that is dated 1903. The building features chequer brickwork, a plain brick band course, and moulded brick eaves. It has an old tiled roof with brick coped gables and brick chimneys located at the gables and in the center. The cottage is two storeys tall with an attic, consisting of two 18th-century bays on the right and one later bay on the left. The right-hand bays have 19th-century three-light wooden casements, with segmental heads on the ground floor, and dormers featuring paired barred casements. The left-hand bay includes a square bay window on the ground floor, two three-light casements on the first floor, and one dormer. There is a six-panelled door, which is top-lit, situated between the right-hand bays, and it has a wooden surround with fluted pilasters and a steep pediment, along with a blind panel above on the first floor.

Local climate

Yew Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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