The Kennels is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1988. House.
The Kennels
- WRENN ID
- high-barrel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Kennels, Kennel Lane, Steventon
- OS grid reference
- SU 475 919
- Coordinates
- 51.62427, -1.31457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kennels is a house that likely dates from the early 18th century. It features a rendered plinth and small timber-framing with rendered infill. The roof is made of old plain tiles and is half-hipped to the right, with a brick stack at the left end. The building is a single storey with an attic and has a two-window range. There is a 20th-century door on the left, accompanied by a 20th-century lean-to open porch. To the left and right of the central area, there are two-light casements, and there is a two-gabled dormer with two-light casements. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Kennels 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 79% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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