Skirmers is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.

Skirmers

WRENN ID
blind-bastion-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 January 1986
Type
House
Address
Skirmers, 5, Aston Street, Aston Tirrold, OX11 9DQ
OS grid reference
SU 556 858
Coordinates
51.56849, -1.19829
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Skirmers is a house dating from the 17th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building features red brick on the ground floor and large timber framing on the first floor, with brick infill in the lower panels and rendered infill above. It has an old plain-tile roof and a brick ridge stack located to the right of the center. The house is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window range that is positioned at right angles to the street. There is a 20th-century half-glazed door located to the left of a lean-to extension on the right. The windows exhibit irregular fenestration and include casements. There are hipped dormers on the left and center, and a flat-roofed dormer on the right. The first floor and the gable of the left return are adorned with banded fish-scale and plain-tile hanging. Additionally, there is a wooden angled bay with casements, supported on brackets, located at the center of the first floor. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Skirmers 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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