Box House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottage.
Box House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-pilaster-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box House Cottage, Bath Road, SN13 8AA
- OS grid reference
- ST 822 685
- Coordinates
- 51.41524, -2.25658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box House Cottage is a service cottage dating from the 19th century, constructed of ashlar and squared rubble with a Bridgwater tile roof and coped gables. The building is two storeys high and features a double-fronted main facade with two 2-light flush chamfered windows on each floor, along with a central door that has a reset datestone above it, indicating the year 1696. On the right side, there is an addition that includes one range of similar windows and an additional similar window to the right, which has replaced a door. The cottage is included for its group value with Box House.
Local climate
Box House 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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