Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Ivy Cottage

WRENN ID
bitter-solder-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Ivy Cottage, Worth Matravers, BH19 3LQ
OS grid reference
SY 974 774
Coordinates
50.59672, -2.03796
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ivy Cottage is a semi-detached cottage, probably dating from the 18th century. It features rubble stone walls, a stone slate roof, and stone end stacks. The building is one storey with an attic. The entrance has a ledged door, and the ground floor includes two casement windows with glazing bars set beneath stone ashes. In the attic, there is a continuous pent-roofed dormer that contains two casements with glazing bars and a central blocked window. One of the ground floor rooms has a large open fireplace with a timber lintel.

Local climate

Ivy Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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