Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1975. A C17 Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-buttress-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes Central MP: Emily Darlington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Willen Road, Milton Keynes Village, Broughton and Milton Keynes, MK10 9AF
- OS grid reference
- SP 888 392
- Coordinates
- 52.04473, -0.70642
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that has been altered over time. It is timber framed with colourwashed brick infill and features a replacement half-hipped thatched roof. The cottage has brick chimneys located to the left of the center and at the right end. It is one storey with an attic and has a gable facing the street. There are three-light casements on each floor and two eyebrow dormers on the north roofslope. Additionally, there is a lower wing on the south side that displays exposed studwork on the roadside. The thatched roof is topped with a half-hipped gable.
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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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