Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1988. Cottage.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-pediment-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Church Lane, Grafton Regis, NN12 7SS
- OS grid reference
- SP 757 467
- Coordinates
- 52.11383, -0.89529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features thatch and plain-tile roofs, along with brick ridge and end stacks. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and has a three-window range, following a three-unit plan. There is a plank door located to the right of the centre, which has a wooden lintel and is sheltered by a 20th-century gabled timber porch. The windows are 2-light casements on both the ground and first floors, also with wooden lintels. The roof of the right end bay has been raised, with brickwork extending to the first floor. Inside, the cottage contains ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace featuring a chamfered bressumer. A portion of a possible cruck truss remains in the roof, although the rest has been removed.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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