Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Yew Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
rough-hearth-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 February 1987
Type
House
Address
Yew Tree Cottage, Main Street, Westow, YO60 7NE
OS grid reference
SE 753 652
Coordinates
54.07786, -0.84942
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A house dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, with 20th-century renovations. The house is constructed of limestone rubble with a pantile roof. It has a three-cell direct-entry plan, with the left-end cell now used as a garage. The house is two storeys high with two first-floor windows. A 20th-century stable door is flanked by 16-pane sash windows, all with wooden lintels. To the extreme left is a garage door with a concrete lintel. The first floor has two 2-light Yorkshire sash windows that break the stepped eaves course. The roof has sprocketed eaves, and the end and ridge stacks have been rebuilt. Inside, there are three good tie beam trusses with carpenters’ assembly marks clearly visible.

Local climate

Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 6 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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  • 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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