Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1991. A C17 House.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tilted-quoin-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth MP: Dr Luke Evans (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, 92, Main Street, Newbold Verdon
- OS grid reference
- SK 447 037
- Coordinates
- 52.62958, -1.33983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with colour washed brick panels and a thatched roof, which has a single raised brick gable, a single bargeboard, and two red brick gable stacks. The building has a T-plan layout and is two storeys high with an irregular three-bay front, including a gable on the right side. The central entrance is a 20th-century door, flanked by a pair of three-light plain casement windows with segmental brick heads. On the first floor, there are two two-light plain casement windows. The main bay posts are supported by straight braces to the tie or wall plate. Please note that the 20th-century brick retail block attached to the right side of the building is not included in this description.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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