Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-remnant-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Watery Lane, Kemsing, TN15 6NP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 571 586
- Coordinates
- 51.30486, 0.25317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a 2-storey, 2-window cottage located on Watery Lane in Kemsing, dating from 1759, as indicated by a plaque. The cottage features a half-hipped tiled roof on the left and a projecting chimney at the right end. It is constructed of rubble masonry with brick dressings. The windows are square paned casements, with those on the ground floor set beneath segmental brick arches. The central door is positioned under a flat hood. There is a modern lean-to addition on the left side of the building.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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