Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-chancel-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Water Lane, Bovingdon
- OS grid reference
- TL 017 022
- Coordinates
- 51.70996, -0.52891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a house that dates back to the 17th century or earlier, with a later 20th-century addition to the south. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast, with some exposed timbers, and is topped by a steep old red tile roof. It is a long structure with two storeys and one-and-a-half storeys, facing west. The older northern part of the house has two casement windows and a large chimney that was formerly external, with the top made of 17th or 18th-century brickwork. There is also an added segmental oriel window and a small porch on the northwest side. The southern extension includes three gabled dormers that rise through the eaves, a gabled porch, and two brick bays with tiled lean-to roofs.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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