Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1961. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tilted-tallow-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Box Cottage, 36, Fore Street, Otterton, EX9 7HB
- OS grid reference
- SY 082 853
- Coordinates
- 50.66013, -3.2994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century, and possibly earlier. It is constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with stone rubble or brick stacks topped with 19th or 20th-century brick. The cottage features a thatched roof and has a two-room plan, facing south-south-east. There is a gable-end stack in each room and rear outshots. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical two-window front with replacement casements from the 19th and 20th centuries, which include glazing bars. The central doorway has a late 19th-century six-panel door and is sheltered by a 20th-century monopitch tile-roofed porch. The roof is gable-ended. The interior was not available for inspection at the time of the survey. Box Cottage is part of a group of attractive listed buildings along Otterton Fore Street.
Local climate
Box Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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