Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Ivy Cottage

WRENN ID
empty-spire-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Ivy Cottage, 21, Woodhouse Hill
OS grid reference
SE 150 187
Coordinates
53.66529, -1.77374
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ivy Cottage is an early 19th-century building located on Woodhouse Hill. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and features a pitched stone slate roof. The cottage is a single storey with a gable end that has a pediment supported by scroll-shaped kneelers. An oval plaque is set within the tympanum, and there is a Venetian window present.

Local climate

Ivy Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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