Box Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. House.

Box Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-lime-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1968
Type
House
Address
Box Cottage, 4, Marsh Road, Rode
OS grid reference
ST 805 539
Coordinates
51.28447, -2.28047
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Box Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with dressed quoins and features a triple-Roman tile roof. The building has two gabled sash dormers in the roof, coped verges, and two brick ridge stacks. The symmetrical frontage consists of two storeys and an attic with five bays, each bay containing 2-light hollow moulded stone-mullioned windows, where each light has a 20th-century metal casement. There are weathered strings above the window heads. The central door opening is framed by a stopped ogee-moulded stone surround and features a six-panelled door, with the top four panels glazed. A wooden trellis porch with a tent hood shelters the entrance.

Local climate

Box Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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