Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Cottage.

Box Cottage

WRENN ID
first-quartz-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Box Cottage, Brede
OS grid reference
TQ 843 193
Coordinates
50.94421, 0.62222
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Box Cottage is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed cottage with plaster infilling. The roof, which was originally thatched, is now covered with tiles and features two "eyebrows." The cottage has casement windows and is two storeys high, with two windows on the front.

Local climate

Box Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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