Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1983. Farmhouse.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-balcony-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Box Cottage, 43, High Street, Alconbury
- OS grid reference
- TL 187 756
- Coordinates
- 52.36608, -0.25688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century. It has a two-unit plan with a lobby entry, although a rear wing or outshut has recently been demolished. The building features a substantial timber frame consisting of five bays, which is plastered, with plastered brick on the ground floor of the south-west and south-east walls. The roof is modern and covered with plain tiles, and there is a rebuilt ridge stack. The south-east elevation has two storeys and includes five casement windows of various sizes, along with a modern gabled, closed porch on the north-east side. Inside, there are two inglenook hearths and exposed floor and wall frames.
Local climate
Box Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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