Box Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1972. Cottage.
Box Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- graven-lintel-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Tree Cottage, 16, Way Lane, Waterbeach
- OS grid reference
- TL 497 654
- Coordinates
- 52.2664, 0.19344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Tree Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located on Way Lane in Waterbeach. It features a timber frame with plaster and a reed thatched roof. There is an attached barn that is timber framed, weather boarded, and also thatched. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has a three-unit, lobby entry plan. The kitchen has been rebuilt with a later 19th-century cooking hearth, and there are 19th-century side and ridge stacks. The cottage has four gabled dormer windows and modern casements at the ground floor, along with a closed, gabled porch. Inside, the cottage has light timber framed walls and floors, with some reused timber in the barn. There is a 19th-century boxed stair and doors, as well as two inglenook hearths.
Local climate
Box Tree 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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