Squirrel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1989. Cottage.
Squirrel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-floor-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Squirrel Cottage, the Green, Kingham
- OS grid reference
- SP 260 242
- Coordinates
- 51.91606, -1.62233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Squirrel Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed from roughly coursed limestone and marlstone rubble, topped with a straw thatch roof. The building has one storey and an attic.
The cottage features early 20th-century casements with wood lintels, including four eyebrow eaves dormers and four windows on the ground floor, with two on the left and two on the right of a roughly central 20th-century boarded door that is sheltered by a conical thatched hood. There is a 20th-century metal French window located between the two left windows. An integral end stack is positioned on the left side.
Attached to the right is a single-storey range that has two narrow casements and a glazed door to the right. Above a circular bowl inserted into the wall, there is a carving of a squirrel, which is of indeterminate but likely relatively recent date.
Local climate
Squirrel Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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