Ivy Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Cottage.
Ivy Cottages
- WRENN ID
- under-pilaster-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy Cottages, Badsell Road, Capel
- OS grid reference
- TQ 648 453
- Coordinates
- 51.18321, 0.35797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottages is a pair of small cottages, likely built in the early to mid 19th century. The ground floor is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, while the first floor features a timber frame clad with weatherboards. The cottages have brick stacks and chimney shafts, topped with a peg-tile roof.
These cottages have a mirrored plan, built side by side along the road and facing north. Each cottage has a one-room layout with a lateral stack at the rear, and there are paired front doorways located in the center of the block. The cottages are two stories tall.
The exterior presents a symmetrical front with two windows, featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The paired front doorways each have a 20th-century part-glazed door, sheltered by an original shared flat hood supported by shaped timber brackets. The roof runs parallel to the road and is continuous with the roof over The Cottage next door.
The interior was not available for inspection at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Ivy Cottages 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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