Box Cottage and Gards Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Cottage.
Box Cottage and Gards Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-roof-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Cottage and Gards Cottage, Tarrant Monkton
- OS grid reference
- ST 944 088
- Coordinates
- 50.87949, -2.08007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage and Gards Cottage are a pair of attached cottages located in Tarrant Monkton, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with additions and alterations from the 18th century. The cottages are constructed from a mix of materials, including part timber-frame, coursed flint and brick, and sections that are rendered and colour-washed. They feature a thatched roof with brick stacks at either end and have a mix of two and one-and-a-half storeys. The front of the cottages displays irregular fenestration, with two-light cast-iron casements that include glazing bars. The rear has 20th-century casements with leaded lights. A central plank door is set within a thatched porch.
Local climate
Box Cottage and Gards Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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