Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-roof-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Leighton Road, Edlesborough, LU6 2HA
- OS grid reference
- SP 954 203
- Coordinates
- 51.87366, -0.61449
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid-19th century, which incorporates remains of a medieval structure featuring a cruck truss. The building is constructed of brick with slate roofs and brick chimneys, forming an L-plan layout and standing two storeys tall.
The left wing projects and has a 4-pane sash window on the ground floor of the gable, while the right side features two paired barred wooden casements on the first floor and a 3-light wooden casement with a segmental head on the ground floor. The right wing has one bay of similar casements and a 20th-century 6-panel door to the left. There is a 20th-century whitewashed brick extension at the rear.
In front of the left gable, there is a half-timbered and weatherboarded projection that is part of the adjacent Plum Tree Cottage and is not included in this listing. Inside, the cottage has a cruck truss above the first floor level between the rear bays of the left wing, original purlins in the rear bay, and a 17th to 18th-century chamfered spine beam and chimney in the centre bay.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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