Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1977. House. 1 related planning application.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-frieze-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, 2, High Hill, Keswick, Cumberland, CA12 5NY
- OS grid reference
- NY 261 238
- Coordinates
- 54.60418, -3.144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a 17th-century building located on Keswick High Hill. It is constructed of roughcast over stone rubble and features a stone roof. The cottage has two storeys, with the gable end displaying a central door that is accompanied by a modern porch, as well as one square modern window on each floor. The single-storey section facing the road includes a dormer window.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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