Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-sill-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wallasey MP: Dame Angela Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, West Kirby Road, CH46 5NH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 253 885
- Coordinates
- 53.38876, -3.1246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a house dated 1690, as indicated by the date stone. The building features a stone structure with a brick front wing and a thatched roof. On the left side, there is a small bay made of brick with a slate roof. The front has a 2-light single-chamfered-mullioned window, where the mullion has been removed and a casement inserted, along with a horizontally sliding sash window that has glazing bars and an eyebrow dormer above it. The wing has two horizontally sliding sash windows. The right side of the house has a lateral stack and a blocked entrance, as well as a 3-light single-chamfered-mullioned window with an inserted sliding sash, along with two raking buttresses and the date stone. The rear of the house features sliding sash windows and there is a 20th-century porch at the angle. A gable-end stack is also present.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 2012
- 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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