Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. House.
Box Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-storey-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Box Cottage, Main Street, Preston Bissett
- OS grid reference
- SP 657 296
- Coordinates
- 51.96158, -1.04417
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Box Cottage is an 18th-century house that has been altered over time. It features a timber frame with thin beams and whitewashed brick infill. The roof is made of slate and has an altered eaves line, with external brick stacks at both ends and another stack in the center. The building is two stories tall and has four irregular bays. The windows are 19th-century wooden casements, with two and three lights. The left-hand bay projects, while the second bay has a canted bay window topped with a lean-to slate roof that extends over the door to the left. There is a county fire insurance plaque above the door, and a doorway between the right-hand bays has been blocked.
Local climate
Box Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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