Box Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Box Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-stair-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Box Tree Cottage, Horseshoe Lane, Hormead, SG9 0NQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 401 297
- Coordinates
- 51.94903, 0.03718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Tree Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century, with a rear wing added in the 20th century. It features a timber frame resting on a brick sill and is covered in dark weatherboarding, topped with steep red tile roofs. The main part of the cottage has a half-hipped roof on the eastern side. The building is generally Z-shaped and has two storeys, with the older front range consisting of two cells and an end chimney, designed in a lobby entry plan. It faces south and has a single-storey section extending beyond the chimney at the western end. There are two windows on each floor, which are 2- and 3-light flush casement windows. Inside, there is a chimney located in the western gable.
Local climate
Box Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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 0.3°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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