Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1975. House. 2 related planning applications.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-rotunda-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Cobbett Lane, Flitton and Greenfield, MK45 5DX
- OS grid reference
- TL 060 357
- Coordinates
- 52.00985, -0.45687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and has red brick infill, topped with a thatched roof. The building features a two-room plan and is one storey high with attics. There are 20th-century additions at each end. The gable end faces the road. On the north elevation, the ground floor has two 2-light casement windows, while the attic includes two eyebrow dormers, each with 2-light casements, all featuring leaded lights. The front door is off-centre and is set within a gabled timber porch. A central double ridge stack made of red brick is present.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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