Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1979. Attached houses. 2 related planning applications.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-corbel-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1979
- Type
- Attached houses
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, 2 Main Street, Harston, Belvoir, NG32 1PS
- OS grid reference
- SK 839 318
- Coordinates
- 52.87783, -0.7544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a former pair of attached houses dating from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed ironstone and features a pantile roof. It stands two storeys tall and is arranged in three bays. The central entrance has a plank door, and the windows are late 19th century casements, with the one to the right of the door being from the late 20th century. There is no window located above the door. The roof is gabled and includes internal gable-end stacks.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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