Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-railing-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, School Road, Little Maplestead, CO9 2RY
- OS grid reference
- TL 825 339
- Coordinates
- 51.97387, 0.65611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th to 18th century. It has a timber frame and is faced with red brick, with a flint plinth on the right side. The roof is covered with red tiles and features two red brick chimney stacks, one on the left and one off-center. The cottage is two storeys high and has three small paned horizontal sliding sash windows on the first floor. The ground floor has two small paned bow windows. There is a 20th-century red brick gabled porch on the right side, which has a red tiled roof and a boarded door. Inside, the side purlin roof structure is visible, and the frame is exposed.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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