Box Cottage and Forecourt Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. Cottage. 13 related planning applications.
Box Cottage and Forecourt Wall
- WRENN ID
- steep-joist-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Cottage and Forecourt Wall, Chalkcroft Lane, Penton Mewsey, SP11 0RQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 330 476
- Coordinates
- 51.22703, -1.52879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on Chalkcroft Lane in Penton Mewsey. The front (west) elevation is symmetrical, featuring one storey and an attic, with two windows. The cottage has rendered walls built on a cob base and a thatched roof. The roof is half-hipped at the south end, with eaves raised above the upper windows and lowered in the centre to form the wide roof of an open porch supported by posts. Casement windows are present, along with a 6-panelled front door with two glazed panels at the top. The rear of the cottage displays a late 19th-century exterior with a slate roof and two stories. The interior includes a wide chimney breast, with a kitchener and an old bread oven, along with other original fittings. A high wall, constructed of rendered cob on a flint and brick base and capped with tiles, is situated on the north side of the forecourt, returning along part of the front.
Local climate
Box Cottage and Forecourt Wall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 15 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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