Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-joist-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Cottage, Hunton Lane, Wonston, SO21 3PS
- OS grid reference
- SU 484 396
- Coordinates
- 51.15443, -1.30808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed from rendered cob and weatherboarded timber frame, topped with a thatched roof. The building has one and a half storeys and features a three-window range, with a fourth bay on the right that is weatherboarded. There is a battle entry door at the inner end of the left bay, and to the right, a small three-light window. The masonry is squared render. Above, there are three regular eyebrow dormers, each with 19th-century two-light casements that have glazing bars and brick cills. The roof is half-hipped, with wide eaves and a small brick stack at the ridge.
Local climate
Box Cottage 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 lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- 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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