Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. A 19th century House. 4 related planning applications.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-courtyard-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Burton Overy, LE8 9EW
- OS grid reference
- SP 678 982
- Coordinates
- 52.57796, -1.00024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is an early 19th-century house. It is constructed of whitewashed brick with a Welsh slate roof and brick end stacks. A wooden bracketed cornice runs along the roofline. The front elevation features two storeys of three sash windows, with glazing patterns of 8/8, 6/6, and 8/8. Tudor moulded hood moulds are above the windows. A central wooden doorcase supports a flat canopy on brackets, sheltering a 4-panelled door and an overlight with glazing bars forming a diamond pattern.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 3 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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