Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1987. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-grate-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Cottage, A338, Winterbourne, SP4 6EH
- OS grid reference
- SU 176 349
- Coordinates
- 51.11352, -1.74927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 18th century or earlier. It features a rendered cob and timber-framed upper floor, with the gable faced in flint and a thatched roof. The building is single storey and attic, raised to two storeys, and consists of two bays, with a third bay added to the northeast. The entrance is located between the first and second bays and is enclosed in a temporary glazed lean-to. The cottage has paned timber casement windows, some of which are leaded. The roof is half-hipped, with thatch swept over two flush dormers at the rear. There is an original gable stack situated between the second and third bays, along with an added stack at the rear of the left bay.
Local climate
Box Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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