Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. A 17th century House.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-span-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Littlehempston
- OS grid reference
- SX 812 626
- Coordinates
- 50.45168, -3.67355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a house that was formerly the Rectory, dating from the 17th to 18th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century and an extension added in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and has an asbestos slate hipped roof. It stands two storeys high, with the original section on the right (south) featuring a three-window range. The early 19th-century windows are three-light casements with glazing bars. The central entrance has a fielded panel door flanked by narrow side-lights and a fanlight, all with glazing bars, and is sheltered by a wooden trellis porch.
At the rear, there are two early 19th-century wings with hipped roofs and casements that include margin panes. The north end features a mid-19th-century projecting cross-wing with two asymmetrical gables adorned with ornate pierced bargeboards, finials, and pendants. The windows have ovolo moulded wooden mullions set in chamfered openings with flat brick arches. There is a left-hand carriageway with a four-centred brick arch and double doors. A large rendered chimney stack with three diagonally set flues is positioned above, along with two additional rendered chimney stacks at the south end.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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