Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Cottage.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-rubblework-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Cottage, Main Street, Chideock
- OS grid reference
- SY 424 928
- Coordinates
- 50.73202, -2.81668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is a single cottage dating from the late 18th century. It features lias stone walls that are coursed and patched, topped with a thatch roof that is half-hipped on the left side and gabled on the right side. There is a 20th-century brick chimney stack at the right gable. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows, which include two light wooden casements with glazing bars. On the ground floor to the left, there is a small canted bay window that fills a former shop entrance. There is also a 20th-century bay window on the right side at ground level, which is not listed. At the rear, there is a central outshut made of rubble stone, covered by a pentice roof of Roman tiles.
Local climate
Box Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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