Box Hedge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Box Hedge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-lintel-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Hedge Cottage, Tower Hill, Chaddleworth, RG20 7EH
- OS grid reference
- SU 415 773
- Coordinates
- 51.49341, -1.40339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Hedge Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with 20th-century alterations and extensions. It is timber-framed with brick infill and has a thatched roof, half-hipped to the east. The plan is a lobby entry with an outshut to the rear. The cottage is one and a half storeys high, with two dormers cut into the thatch, and a large central stack. The south elevation features three 20th-century casement windows flanking a central door, which is sheltered by an enclosed lean-to porch. A one-story, 20th-century tiled extension is located to the east.
Local climate
Box Hedge Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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 — 2 transactions since 2012
- 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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