Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1989. A Mid to late C18 House. 3 related planning applications.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-wattle-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Barn Garth, Lower Allithwaite, LA11 6PP
- OS grid reference
- SD 380 788
- Coordinates
- 54.20127, -2.95042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century, located in Lower Allithwaite Barn Garth, near Cartmel. It is constructed of roughcast stone with a slate roof. The house is two storeys high and has a central entrance plan across three bays. It has sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance features a stone opening with chamfered edges; one stone incorporates lozenge moulding, and is topped by a bracketed flat canopy. A 10-panel door is located within the opening. A gable-end stack is present. Inside, there is a plank and muntin partition, and the fireplace features fluted flat pilasters and fielded panels. A winding stair is situated in a rear projection.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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