Ivy Cottage Including Front Garden Area Railings and Gate to West is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1995. House. 6 related planning applications.
Ivy Cottage Including Front Garden Area Railings and Gate to West
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage Including Front Garden Area Railings and Gate to West, Alchester Road, Chesterton, OX26 1UW
- OS grid reference
- SP 561 213
- Coordinates
- 51.88763, -1.18551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a house dating from around 1840, with extensions added in the late 19th or 20th century. It is constructed from limestone rubble with vermiculated cement quoins, and features a brick extension at the rear. The house has a slate roof with gabled ends and gable-end stacks with short red brick shafts.
The building has a double depth plan, consisting of two main front rooms, a central entrance leading to a stairhall, and service rooms in an integral outshut at the rear right, which was extended on the left in the late 19th or 20th century. The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window west front. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows from the 19th century in exposed boxing, while the ground floor features windows in moulded architraves that have been replaced by 20th-century French casements. The central doorway is framed by a pilastered doorcase with an entablature and a six-panel door. At the rear, the roof extends over the outshut, and the brick extension on the right includes casement windows with glazing bars and a panelled door at the centre.
Inside, the staircase has stick balusters, a wreathed mahogany handrail, and a turned newel. Much of the original joinery remains, including panelled doors, although the chimneypieces in the front left and right rooms have been replaced. The property also includes 19th-century wrought and cast-iron front garden area railings and a gate, featuring fleur-de-lis finials and scroll stanchions.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage Including Front Garden Area Railings and Gate to West sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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 — 10 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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