Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. A C17 Cottage.

Ivy Cottage

WRENN ID
odd-porch-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Ivy Cottage, Willow Bridge, Cockfield
OS grid reference
TL 906 534
Coordinates
52.14615, 0.78517
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ivy Cottage is a timber-framed and plastered building with a thatched roof, likely dating from the 17th to 18th century. The roof is hipped at the east end and features a ridge chimney stack. The cottage has one storey and attics, with small casement windows. It is situated in an isolated location within a field.

Local climate

Ivy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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