Box Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Box Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
carved-basalt-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Box Tree Cottage, Wattisham
OS grid reference
TM 012 516
Coordinates
52.12684, 0.93873
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Box Tree Cottage is a small timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 17th to 18th century, featuring a thatched roof. It has one storey and attics, with small casement windows and a boarded door. A ridge chimney stack is present. The cottage has been renovated.

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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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