Letter Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1985. Cottage.
Letter Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-flint-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Letter Box Cottage, 45, Ebrington
- OS grid reference
- SP 173 420
- Coordinates
- 52.0763, -1.74796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Letter Box Cottage is an 18th-century cottage featuring a coursed squared limestone facade and limestone rubble. It has a thatched roof with two square ashlar gable end stacks. The cottage has a two-room plan with a single room depth. The facade is one storey and an attic, which is lit by two 3-light 18th-century casement windows with leaded lights. Other windows are 20th-century casements with leaded lights. There is a single light fire window in the gable end facing the road. The entrance is through a painted plank door, which is accessed by three steps and has a single pane positioned off centre to the left. The cottage also features three S-ended tie bars.
Local climate
Letter Box Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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