Yew Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. House.
Yew Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- graven-gravel-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yew Tree Farmhouse, Hutton Roof
- OS grid reference
- SD 570 781
- Coordinates
- 54.1971, -2.65992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Farmhouse is a house dated by a lintel to 1720. It is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. The north facade is two storeys high and has two bays. The windows feature recessed chamfered mullions, with single light fire windows in the first bay, while the window in the third bay of the first floor has a flat-cut mullion. The entrance has chamfered jambs and an embattled lintel, leading to a gabled porch topped with a ball finial and benches. Above the porch is a datestone that reads 1877. The house has a projecting gable-end stack and a corbelled gable-end stack with a rounded shaft. The east end includes a later gabled extension and a 20th-century conservatory. The rear features a projecting gabled bay with a three-light window, a stair light, and a single light on the first floor. To the right, there is an outshut under a catslide roof and a large projecting lateral stack with set-offs and a round shaft. Inside, there is a fireplace with a moulded opening, a corbelled lintel, and a cornice, along with a spice cupboard to the left that has a door with moulded framing.
Local climate
Yew Tree Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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