Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. House.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-timber-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Main Street, Grove
- OS grid reference
- SU 401 900
- Coordinates
- 51.6082, -1.4221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with a 17th-century addition on the left. It features painted brick, some timber-framing, and weatherboarding on the timber-framing to the right. The roof is thatched, with a brick ridge stack located at the center. The building is single storey with an attic and has a 4-bay, 3-window layout. There is a plank door leading to a 20th-century porch at the center. The windows are irregularly spaced and consist of 20th-century casements. The house has two eyebrow dormers. Inside, the 16th-century section of the house includes three bays of full crucks.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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