Squirrel Cottage and Woodpecker Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Cottage.
Squirrel Cottage and Woodpecker Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-chimney-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Squirrel Cottage and Woodpecker Cottage, 81, Higher Street, Okeford Fitzpaine, DT11 0RQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 805 108
- Coordinates
- 50.8965, -2.27782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Squirrel Cottage and Woodpecker Cottage are two cottages that may have originally been one house. They likely date from the 17th century but were refaced in the 18th century. The cottages have a rendered facade with side walls made of banded flint, rubble, and brick. They feature a thatched, gable-ended roof with brick stacks at both ends and in the center. The buildings are two storeys high and have a total of four windows across the front. On the ground floor, there are four-light recessed bow windows with glazing bars. Above these, there are two- and three-light casements, also with glazing bars. A 20th-century door is located under a thatched porch to the right of the central stack.
Local climate
Squirrel Cottage and Woodpecker Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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