Box Bush Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 2000. House.

Box Bush Cottage

WRENN ID
lesser-corridor-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 2000
Type
House
Address
Box Bush Cottage, 25a, Sadler Street, Wells, BA5 2RR
OS grid reference
ST 549 458
Coordinates
51.21014, -2.64685
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Box Bush Cottage is a house that is attached to the rear of No. 25 and was formerly part of it. The building is constructed from rubble and has a pantile roof. It features some internal elements from the 17th century and was refronted in the late 18th century or early 19th century, with substantial restoration carried out in the late 20th century. The layout consists of a two-room single-depth plan with a central staircase and a symmetrical front.

The exterior has two storeys and an attic, with three windows. There are two replacement sash windows with twelve panes flanking a blind opening above a flat canted bay, and a sixteen-pane sash window with a central part-glazed door from the 19th century.

Inside, the ground floor retains three rough deep-chamfered beams, and the room to the left features a deep niche, which may have been a former window opening. The renewed winder staircase includes a part-glazed screen that was removed from a chapel on Union Street. At the top of the stairs, there is an 18th-century fielded three-panel door. The first floor has a small bressumer fireplace with a segmental head and stopped ends, along with more rough beams. The upper winder stair is of early fabric, and the three-bay roof has heavy tie-beams supported by late 20th-century steel props, along with one purlin.

Local climate

Box Bush Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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