Ivy Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Cottages.
Ivy Cottages
- WRENN ID
- late-spindle-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Ivy Cottages, Fyfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 564 065
- Coordinates
- 51.73542, 0.26454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottages is a pair of cottages dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. They are constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a thatched roof. The cottages are one storey high with attics and feature a four-window range with casement windows, some of which are leaded. There are two gabled dormers and a lean-to extension at the rear.
Local climate
Ivy Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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