Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House. 2 related planning applications.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-pavement-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Box Cottage, 21, Prentice Street, Lavenham, CO10 9RD
- OS grid reference
- TL 917 494
- Coordinates
- 52.11004, 0.79862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is a 15th-16th century timber-framed and plastered building located on Lavenham’s Prentice Street. The building was formerly numbers 21 and 22. The timber framing is exposed on the front and the east end, and the roof is tiled with old tiles. It is two storeys high, with the upper storey jettied on the front, supported by exposed joists. The front elevation features two windows with leaded casements.
Local climate
Box 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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