Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1984. Cottage.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-truss-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Taylor's Lane, Trottiscliffe
- OS grid reference
- TQ 641 600
- Coordinates
- 51.31576, 0.35353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the 16th century, with 19th-century elevations. It features a timber-framed structure with a red brick ground floor and a painted weatherboarded first floor. The roof is plain tiled, hipped to the right, and has a central coupled brick stack. At the rear, there is a catslide extension that is interrupted by a gabled staircase projection. The cottage is two storeys high, with four windows on the first floor and three on the ground floor, all of which are casements. The ground-floor windows have segment heads. There is a painted weatherboarded catslide addition on the right and a one-storey projection on the left that has a 20th-century glazed door.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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