Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. House.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-lancet-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Fearnley Lane, Holme Valley
- OS grid reference
- SE 154 084
- Coordinates
- 53.57212, -1.76877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a large detached house that was originally a warehouse, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features quoins. The building has a stone slate roof with two ashlar stacks and stands three storeys tall with three bays. The central door is topped by a window, and there are three-light stone mullioned windows on both the left and right sides at the ground and first floors. The second floor has three two-light stone mullioned windows. To the left, there is a large, partially blocked carriage entrance with a small door adjacent to it. Additionally, there is a three-light stone mullioned window on the second floor. At the rear, there is a two-storey wing, and the left gable has modern windows.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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