Squirrel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Small house.
Squirrel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-trefoil-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Small house
- Address
- Squirrel Cottage, the Common, Beckley and Stowood
- OS grid reference
- SP 557 110
- Coordinates
- 51.79547, -1.19253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Squirrel Cottage is a small house dating from the early 18th century. It is built of limestone rubble with timber lintels and features a thatched roof with a brick gable stack. The cottage has a two-unit plan plus a gable outshut and is one storey high with attics. The front has two windows, with a door on the left and two-light casements in the center and to the right. There are also two two-light dormers. The door was originally located in the center of the front. To the right, there is a hip-roofed outshut, and there is a 20th-century extension at the rear. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a bressumer.
Local climate
Squirrel Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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