Ivy Cottage Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1983. Cottage.
Ivy Cottage Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- young-plaster-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy Cottage Keepers Cottage, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 606 798
- Coordinates
- 54.21269, -2.60445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage and Keeper's Cottage is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys tall. The exterior is pebbledashed and features a slate roof with four chimneys. The two houses are positioned at right angles to each other. Notable architectural details include kneelers and plain stone surrounds around the windows, some of which are coupled. Most of the windows are sash style with all glazing bars intact.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage Keepers Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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