Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Cottage.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-zinc-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Church Street, Norton St. Philip, BA2 7LU
- OS grid reference
- ST 771 557
- Coordinates
- 51.30067, -2.32873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Church Street in Norton St. Philip. It is constructed of roughly coursed rubble Doulting stone and features a plain gabled roof covered with double Roman clay tiles. The cottage has a two-storey, two-window front with an entrance door on the right that is boarded and rubbled within a plain surround. The ground floor has two- and three-light 19th-century casements set in stone mullion windows, while the first floor features two-light, eight-pane wood casements. Adjacent to the cottage is a boundary wall made of coped coursed rubble, standing approximately 2.2 meters high, with an entrance on the right accessed through a pointed stone arch.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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