Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-flagstone-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Box Cottage, 47, Bafford Lane, Charlton Kings, GL53 8DN
- OS grid reference
- SO 961 200
- Coordinates
- 51.87921, -2.05669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is a house that dates from around 1700, with wings added in the mid to late 19th century. The building features a mix of materials: the left section is made of pinkish-brown brick, the center is constructed from reddish-brown brick in English bond, and the right section showcases red brick with yellow brick chequerwork in its headers. The left wing at the rear is built from coursed Cotswold stone rubble, and the roof of this wing is covered with stone tiles, while the rest of the roof has been renewed with tiles.
The house is two storeys high and has three first-floor windows, with a rear wing to the left. The entrance is located off-centre to the right and features a 20th-century porch with a glazed door. The windows throughout the building are also from the late 20th century. There are ridge and end stacks, with the right end stack having been renewed. The left wing projects from a two-storey gabled section that is slightly angled back from the main front and includes a two-light casement window in the gable.
Although the interior has not been inspected, it is historically notable as the home of Cecil Day Lewis, who served as Poet Laureate from 1933 to 1938.
Local climate
Box Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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