Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Cottage.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-kitchen-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Tower Hill, Chaddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SU 415 773
- Coordinates
- 51.49347, -1.40346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century, 18th century, and 20th century. It has a painted render exterior and a thatched, half-hipped roof. The building has a rectangular plan and is connected to Box Hedge Cottage on the east side. It stands one and a half storeys tall and features two dormers; the dormer on the west has thatch swept around it, while the one on the east is cut into the thatch. There is a stack at the west end of the ridge. On the south elevation, there is a 20th-century flat-roofed glazed extension that spans the entire ground floor, along with a two-light 20th-century casement window in the dormers and a central door.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
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