Box Tree Cottage Old Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. Cottage.
Box Tree Cottage Old Post Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-tower-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Tree Cottage Old Post Cottage, the Village, Arkesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 483 343
- Coordinates
- 51.98785, 0.15969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Tree Cottage and Old Post Cottage are a pair of 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottages, currently functioning as two tenements. They have been renovated and altered in the 20th century. The cottages are two storeys high and feature casement windows as well as horizontal sliding sashes. There is a boarded door, and the roof is thatched and half hipped, with two central chimney stacks.
Local climate
Box Tree Cottage Old Post Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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