Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. House. 9 related planning applications.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-mortar-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Box Cottage, 34, Whistley Road, Potterne, SN10 5QY
- OS grid reference
- ST 993 587
- Coordinates
- 51.32778, -2.01101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is an 18th-century house located on the east side of Whistley Road, Potterne. The front facade is constructed of chequered brick, with rubble stone at each end. It features a thatched half-hipped roof and two stacks, one on the north end and one at the rear. The house is double-fronted with a layout of one-and-a-half storeys; it has two casement windows on each floor. The upper windows are positioned under eyebrow projections. A central doorway, with a cambered head and a six-panel door, is topped by a timber pedimental hood supported by brackets. A timber-clad addition with a tiled roof has been added to the left end of the building.
Local climate
Box Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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