Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-frieze-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, 1, Forge Lane, AL6 9NB
- OS grid reference
- TL 230 162
- Coordinates
- 51.83143, -0.2154
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a house that was formerly a village school, dating from the 17th century or earlier. It features a rear wing from the 18th century, creating an L-shaped plan. The exterior is made of chequered red brick and plaster, topped with steeply pitched old tile roofs. The building has two storeys and includes two external chimney stacks on the south elevation. The east elevation has three windows with modern casements, while the north gable end displays a 17th-century chimney stack. The south gable reveals exposed purlins and wall plates. Notably, Ivy Cottage was visited by Vincent Van Gogh, whose sister taught at the school.
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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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