Yew Tree Farmhouse, Wall and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. Farmhouse.

Yew Tree Farmhouse, Wall and Gates

WRENN ID
dusted-plaster-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Yew Tree Farmhouse, Wall and Gates, Neat Lane, Pilton
OS grid reference
ST 597 408
Coordinates
51.16516, -2.57752
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Yew Tree Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated "17 IK 86" on an inscribed stone plaque at the center of its front. It features modern roughcast and a double Roman tile roof with coped verges and end brick stacks. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has two bays. It includes flush-mounted 16-pane sash windows and a central 6-panelled door, with the top two panels being glazed. A sundial is located at the center of the frontage. To the right, there is a single bay outshut of lower height with a triple Roman tile roof, two-light casements, and a door opening with a plank door. There is also a shop front from the 19th century on its right return, consisting of six lights and a plank door. A rubble wall, approximately one meter high, extends at a right angle to the right of the frontage for 20 meters. Adjacent to the house are paired wrought and cast-iron gates with spear capping, supported by "slab" piers.

Local climate

Yew Tree Farmhouse, Wall and Gates receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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