Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Cottage.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-lancet-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Cottage, Maypole Green, Dennington
- OS grid reference
- TM 270 670
- Coordinates
- 52.25458, 1.32575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that features a timber frame with roughcast render and a pantiled roof. It stands two stories tall and has a two-cell plan. The cottage has two windows, with 19th-century casements on the first floor and 20th-century casements on the ground floor. There is a central doorway that contains a mid-20th-century door, and external stacks are present at each gable end. Inside, the cottage retains some exposed timbering, newel stairs, and original floorboards on the first floor.
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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
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