Bear Cottages the Bear Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. Inn, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Bear Cottages the Bear Inn
- WRENN ID
- moated-cornice-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1985
- Type
- Inn, cottage
- Address
- Bear Cottages the Bear Inn, High Street, Box, SN13 8NJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 823 684
- Coordinates
- 51.41495, -2.25459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bear Inn, dating from the early 19th century, is attached to a range of cottages that were built in the late 17th or early 18th century. The inn faces High Street and is constructed from ashlar stone with a low-pitched hipped slate roof. It has two storeys and a three-window layout, with the right side canted forward. Features include a raised plinth, a floor band, a moulded cornice, and a parapet. The first floor has three 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has a 16-pane sash window and double doors set in a projecting Roman Doric ashlar porch, which has two columns and pilaster responds. To the right, there is an ashlar canted bay with a 12-pane front window and an 8-pane side window. The west end wall has a 12-pane sash window on each floor.
Bear Cottages, located at the rear and facing east, are at a lower level and built from rubble stone with a stone-tiled roof. They feature an axial ridge stack and a corner stack on the wall face, with a coped north gable. The cottages have two and a half storeys and two coped dormer gables, each containing a 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion window with a hoodmould. The first floor has four sash windows in bead-moulded surrounds: a pair to the left, a single in the centre, a narrow single with thick glazing bars, and a large single window to the right. The ground floor has a row of mullion windows arranged as 2-3-2 lights with a dripstone, a 6-panel door to No 1 in a chamfered doorcase, a pair of 12-pane sashes, and a 6-panel door to No 2 set in a timber porch. The north end wall features a 2-light recessed cyma-moulded attic mullion window and a bead-moulded single light at ground level. There is a rear wing with a coped west gable and paired upper 12-pane sashes. Attached to the cottages is No 3, a later extension with a coped west gable and a west end stack, which has two upper 12-pane sashes, a pair of ground floor casement windows, and a door in a chamfered surround. There is also a 20th-century two-storey extension beyond.
Local climate
Bear Cottages the Bear Inn 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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