Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. A C18 Cottage.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-sandstone-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Cottage, Tiptree Road, Great Braxted
- OS grid reference
- TL 862 141
- Coordinates
- 51.79485, 0.69884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th or 18th century, with some alterations from the 19th century. It was one of the cottages used by Peter Du Cane when he relocated villagers from Braxted Park to Bung Row around 1825 to 1831 to enclose Braxted Park. The cottage is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof that features two gabled dormers. There are red brick chimney stacks on both the left and right sides. The building has one storey, attics, and a cellar. It has a two-window range of 19th-century type casements with central glazing bars. The central entrance is a gabled open porch with a red tiled roof, leading to a boarded door. Inside, the cottage includes heavy chamfered bridging joists, vertically boarded doors with original ironmongery, and a reputed inglenook fireplace that is now boarded up. Additionally, there is a well located in the cellar.
Local climate
Box Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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