Penguin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Cottage.
Penguin Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-dormer-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Penguin Cottage, 19, High Street, Dorchester, OX10 7HH
- OS grid reference
- SU 578 941
- Coordinates
- 51.64355, -1.16563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penguin Cottage is a row of four cottages located on the west side of Dorchester High Street. They are probably late medieval in origin but were altered in the 17th and 18th centuries. The cottages feature rendered timber framing and have thatch roofs with brick stacks. Each cottage has a single-unit plan and is one storey high with attics. The front of the building has four entrances, which include plank and four-panel doors, as well as a passage entrance with a stable door. The windows are primarily small-pane casements, except for No. 17, which has sash windows and a pair of panelled shutters. The first-floor windows are mostly half dormers. Notably, the unit to the left of centre, No. 15, has a higher ground-floor level. The interiors have not been inspected, but they are noted to be at least partly cruck framed.
Local climate
Penguin Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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