Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. House. 5 related planning applications.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-lead-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Henley Road, Wargrave, RG9 3HU
- OS grid reference
- SU 780 809
- Coordinates
- 51.52241, -0.87606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is an 18th-century house designed as a sham ruin. It is constructed of brick and large flints, with a parapet to a slate roof. The north-east front features two brick arches with springers and flint infilling. It has two 2-light casement windows with glazing bars on the first floor to the right, and two similar windows on the ground floor. The south-west front has a crow-stepped gable. There is a 2-light casement window on the first floor and a half-glazed door within a Tudor arched opening on the ground floor.
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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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