Number 2 Ivy Cottage and Number 4 is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Pair of cottages.

Number 2 Ivy Cottage and Number 4

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
Pair of cottages
Address
Number 2 Ivy Cottage and Number 4, Mursley Road, Swanbourne
OS grid reference
SP 801 272
Coordinates
51.93795, -0.83496
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 2 (Ivy Cottage) and Number 4 are a pair of cottages dating from the 17th century, with some parts rebuilt in the 19th century. They are constructed from a timber frame with plaster, whitewashed brick, and 19th-century brick infill, topped with an old tile roof that is half-hipped to the right. The cottages are arranged in an L-plan and consist of one storey and an attic, featuring two bays on the front, with the left bay gabled. The windows are leaded casements; the left bay has a 3-light casement on the ground floor and a 4-light canted oriel window with a tiled roof in the attic. The right bay has 3-light casements on the ground floor and in the gabled dormer. There is a lean-to projection to the left of the right bay, which has a similar casement and a hipped roof over an open porch to the right, where there is a half-glazed door. The left side of the cottages has two doors in trellis porches and a single-storey half-timbered extension at the far end.

Local climate

Number 2 Ivy Cottage and Number 4 receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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