Yewtree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 October 2000. House.

Yewtree Cottage

WRENN ID
young-storey-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 October 2000
Type
House
Address
Yewtree Cottage, White Castle, Abergavenny, Whitecastle
OS grid reference
SO 378 168
Coordinates
51.84677, -2.90322
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Yewtree Cottage is a 19th-century double-fronted small house. It is constructed of rubble stone, partly whitewashed, with some ashlar dressings, and features a slate roof and gable stacks. The east gable chimney, located on the right, has a massive projecting stone stack with raking offsets. The stacks are topped with brick flues that have oversailing caps.

The two-storey south front is symmetrical, with windows that are 4-pane horned sashes set in shallow stone sills. The first floor has two 4-pane windows with flat heads, while the ground floor features two corresponding 4-pane sashes with segmental arched window-heads. The central entrance doorway is framed by an open porch with a gabled canopy, supported at an angle by slender wooden posts. Low stone walls flank each side of the entrance, which has a 6-panel door, where the bottom two panels are flush and the upper four are glazed.

Attached to the west gable of the house is a single-storey lean-to, which has a small square window opening with a shallow stone sill in its south wall. The east gable features a broad projecting centre-stack and, to the right, a lean-to outshut. The upper wall of the outshut has a small square window opening with a timber lintel, stone sill, and a boarded inner shutter. On the ground floor of the outshut, there is a 2-light window with a timber lintel and stone sill.

An internal inspection was not available at the time of the resurvey.

Local climate

Yewtree Cottage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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