Boxen Hedge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Boxen Hedge
- WRENN ID
- bitter-plinth-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Boxen Hedge, Trull
- OS grid reference
- ST 203 216
- Coordinates
- 50.98893, -3.13657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property is a farmhouse, likely dating from the 17th century and significantly altered in the late 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed with roughcast over rubble walls, with pilaster quoin strips, and has asbestos slate roofs with overhanging eaves. Brick stacks are located on the gable ends and to the left of the cross passage. The building follows a 'U' plan with three main cells and a cross passage, with gabled wings at the rear. It is two storeys high and has three bays. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor features 16-pane sash windows with inserted till windows on the end bay to the right. The entrance is in the second bay from the left, accessed via a flat-roofed wooden porch with Doric columns and panelled double doors, topped with a fanlight. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Boxen Hedge receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- 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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