Squirrel's Drey is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. Forge, shop.
Squirrel's Drey
- WRENN ID
- tenth-baluster-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- Forge, shop
- Address
- Squirrel's Drey, Weston Road, Bletchingdon
- OS grid reference
- SP 502 176
- Coordinates
- 51.85514, -1.27144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Squirrel's Drey is a building that was originally a forge and is now used as a shop. It dates from the mid-18th century and is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a concrete tile roof that is hipped to the left and gabled with a 19th-century brick stack on the right. The building has a one-unit plan and is a single storey with a one-window range. It features timber lintels above 20th-century stable doors on the left and a 20th-century three-light casement window on the right. Inside, there is a collar-truss roof with butt purlins. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Squirrel's Drey sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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