Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-transept-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Cottage, Homington Village, Coombe Bissett, SP5 4NG
- OS grid reference
- SU 122 260
- Coordinates
- 51.03345, -1.82613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is a detached cottage dating to 1726, with alterations made in the late 18th century. The front is constructed of Flemish bond brick with vitrified headers, and has a thatched roof with a brick stack to the left. It is a two-storey, two-window building. A tablet bearing the date "WOR / 1726" sits above the central door, which has a flat hood. There is a two-light casement window to each side of the door. A brick plat band runs along the first floor, above which are two further two-light casement windows. The right return side reveals some timber framing in the gable, and the roof features raking struts to the collar, with one casement window in the attic. A 20th-century garage with a tiled roof is attached to the left, and a 20th-century extension is attached to the right. The rear of the property is not accessible. The interior is said to contain an open fireplace with a chamfered cambered lintel, and chamfered beams with convex stops.
Local climate
Box Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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