Ley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. House. 6 related planning applications.
Ley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hidden-casement-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ley Cottage, the Ley, Box, SN13 8JX
- OS grid reference
- ST 827 685
- Coordinates
- 51.41529, -2.25001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ley Cottage is a house built in the late 18th century, constructed from squared rubble stone and topped with a stone tiled roof featuring coped gables and end wall stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range. It includes one dormer and features a variety of sash windows: a 12-pane, a 6-pane, and a 16-pane on the first floor, and 16-pane sashes on the ground floor, all positioned around a door that is set within a projecting Roman Doric porch supported by two columns. To the left, there is a slate-roofed lean-to with a 6-pane sash window from the 19th century. The north side of the cottage has two dormers, one with a 16-pane sash and two with 12-pane sashes on the first floor, along with a ground floor outbuilding and two additional 12-pane sashes.
Local climate
Ley Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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