Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- moated-keystone-storm
- 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, Church Street, Great Maplestead, CO9 2RH
- OS grid reference
- TL 807 343
- Coordinates
- 51.9782, 0.62967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped by a red plain tiled roof. The building features three gabled dormers, one of which is dated 1672. A central red brick chimney stack with attached square shafts rises from the roof. The cottage is one storey high with attics and has a three-window range of small paned casements. To the left, there is a small paned glazed door.
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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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