Squirrel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Squirrel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-string-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Squirrel Cottage, Longdon, GL20 6AP
- OS grid reference
- SO 847 350
- Coordinates
- 52.01334, -2.22395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Squirrel Cottage is a 17th-century house that features a timber frame with red-brick panels. It has a plain tile roof, with a stack at the east end and a ridge stack on the original west end. The cottage is one storey with an attic. The east gable facing the road is made of 19th-century brick. On the south side, there are two gabled dormers and two 2-light casement windows. At the west end, there is a 19th-century and modern extension that has a gable on the south side and two dormers on the north side.
Local climate
Squirrel Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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