Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- burning-stair-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Podington, NN29 7JB
- OS grid reference
- SP 934 616
- Coordinates
- 52.24498, -0.6325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is an 18th-century building that was originally a pair of houses facing Hinwick House but is now a single residence. The structure is made of coursed limestone rubble and features a clay tile roof with stone gable coping. It stands two storeys tall.
On the north elevation, there are four 3-light casement windows on each floor. The windows on the eastern side have glazing bars, while those on the western side have a central light with glazing bars flanked by leaded lights. A projecting stone string course runs along the first-floor window cill level.
The south elevation includes one first-floor casement window with glazing bars, and the ground floor has a 20th-century door and window on the left-hand side. There is also a one-storey lean-to on the right side, covered with a clay pantile roof.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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