Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1972. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-keystone-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Cottage, Bredon
- OS grid reference
- SO 934 355
- Coordinates
- 52.01793, -2.09694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Breden Kinsham. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, incorporating whitened brick nogging. The windows are modern casements and the roof is slate, also modern. Dormers have been added, which are flat-topped and modern. A modern cottage is attached to the left-hand side.
Local climate
Box Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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