Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-corbel-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Cottage, Village Street, Alton Pancras, DT2 7RT
- OS grid reference
- ST 699 030
- Coordinates
- 50.82655, -2.42774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is a cottage, possibly dating back to the 17th century, with the south end rebuilt in the 19th century. The walls are rendered, likely cob on the right and flint and brick on the left. The cottage has a gable-ended roof, thatched on the right and slated on the left. A brick outshut is located on the left side. The left part of the cottage features two-light casement windows with glazing bars. The right-hand part has a two-light casement with horizontal glazing bars below, and similar windows with leaded-lights above. A plain wooden door provides access. Internally, the cottage features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Box Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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