Squirrels is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1975. House.
Squirrels
- WRENN ID
- fallen-mortar-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Squirrels, Warden Road, Southill
- OS grid reference
- TL 143 432
- Coordinates
- 52.07609, -0.33223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Squirrels is a house, formerly known as Southill Lodge, that dates back to the earlier 18th century and was reworked in the early 19th century in the cottage ornée style. It is constructed with colourwashed roughcast render over a timber frame and features a thatched roof that is hipped at the west end. The building has a four-room plan, is one storey high with attics, and includes a rounded room at the west end, which is likely a later addition.
The front elevation has three casement windows with pointed-arched heads on the ground floor, while the attic features two eyebrow dormers with two-light casements. There are two thatched gabled porches with some trellis work and 20th-century glazed doors. The east gable end has one integral chimney stack, and there is another ridge stack, both made of red brick. The west end has similar pointed-arched windows on the ground floor and dormer, with the ground floor window flanked by blind pointed arches. There are also 20th-century lean-to additions at the rear.
Local climate
Squirrels sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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