Ivy Cottage and Barn Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House, barn.
Ivy Cottage and Barn Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- knotted-gravel-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- House, barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 865 386
- Coordinates
- 54.74279, -2.21011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage and the adjoining barn are a house and barn dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with some alterations. They are built from roughly-coursed sandstone rubble of uneven size and have a stone-flagged roof. The building is two storeys high, with the house on the right featuring two wide bays and a one-bay barn to the left. There is a boarded door with an overlight under a flush lintel. The house has early 19th century sash windows, although the bars have been lost. The left bay of the house is now part of the barn, which has an inserted Dutch door on the left and a loading door above. The building has end chimneys, with the left one truncated and the right one rebuilt in brick. The rear elevation displays a door lintel inscribed with "OCY2 1687 I I B," along with carvings of pincers, hammers, and shears. This inscription is believed to refer to an early Presbyterian Meeting that was held in this house. At the time of the survey, the property was empty and in a derelict condition.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage and Barn Adjoining sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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