The Salt Box is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1972. Cottage.

The Salt Box

WRENN ID
sacred-thatch-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Elmbridge
Constituency
Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1972
Type
Cottage
Address
The Salt Box, Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey, KT7 0SY
OS grid reference
TQ 164 667
Coordinates
51.38814, -0.32718
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Salt Box is a cottage located on Portsmouth Road in Thames Ditton, originally listed as Fawler Cottage. It dates from the early 18th century, with 19th-century additions to the northwest. The building is timber framed and features weatherboard cladding, topped with a pantiled roof that is hipped to the left, with a stack also on the left side.

The cottage is two storeys high and has three glazing bar sash windows in open boxes across the first floor. The leftmost window is from the 19th century, while there is a casement window on the ground floor to the left and a flat-roofed bow window, also from the 19th century, to the left of centre. A sash window is located to the right. The entrance features a six-panel door set in an architrave surround, positioned to the right of centre, with the top two panels being glazed and topped with a dentilled, pedimented porch hood. There is a 20th-century extension at the rear.

Local climate

The Salt Box sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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