2 Yew Tree Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 January 1991. Cottage.

2 Yew Tree Cottages

WRENN ID
burning-corbel-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 January 1991
Type
Cottage
Address
2 Yew Tree Cottages, Burton, Rossett
OS grid reference
SJ 352 569
Coordinates
53.10569, -2.96806
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

2 Yew Tree Cottages is a pair of semi-detached, asymmetrical cottages built in the Vernacular revival style. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the first floor features roughcast rendering, half-timbered gables, and some tile-hanging at the rear. The cottages have a red tiled roof and tall, stepped red-brick chimneys. The eastern frontage is asymmetrical; the north cottage has a ground floor bay with shallow-arched windows and an overhanging half-timbered gable above, which is lit by a broad four-light window. The entrance to the north cottage is through a shallow-arched doorway facing east, with a north-facing half-timbered gable above. The south cottage has a canopied door flanked by shallow-arched windows, and its first floor features roughcast above a brick band. Dormer windows are present under the sloping roof.

To the south, there is an off-centre single-storey lean-to with a three-light window on the right and a round-headed doorway on the left, flanked by brick buttresses. At the rear, the cottages display asymmetrical half-timbered gables with overhanging eaves and broad windows. There are lean-to service rooms with red tiled roofs and a pyramidal roof over a projecting pantry.

An internal inspection was not possible at the time of the re-survey in November 1995.

Local climate

2 Yew Tree Cottages receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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