The White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
The White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-footing-alder
- 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
- The White Cottage, Box, SN13 8AS
- OS grid reference
- ST 814 682
- Coordinates
- 51.41328, -2.26757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, constructed of painted rubble stone with a Bridgwater tile roof, coped gables, and end wall stacks. It is a one-and-a-half-storey, double-fronted building featuring two dormer gables and recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds. Each dormer gable has a two-light window, while the ground floor has a single light and a three-light window. A central, gabled porch was added in the 20th century. A single light with a hoodmould is present on the south end wall. The rear elevation incorporates one dormer gable with a two-light window and hoodmould, alongside two ground-floor two-light windows with hoodmoulds. A date of 1704 is scratched into a cornerstone on the south end wall.
Local climate
The White 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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