Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Cottage.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- odd-crypt-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Mells
- OS grid reference
- ST 720 484
- Coordinates
- 51.23437, -2.40163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yew Tree Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Mells Green. It is constructed of Doulting rubble and features a thatched roof with a rubble stack on the right side. The cottage is two stories high and has two bays. It includes two and three-light edge roll moulded stone mullioned windows, as well as a single light window with a similarly moulded stone surround. The ground floor openings have stopped labels. To the right, there is a plank door and a 19th-century wooden porch with a pent roof.
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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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