Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-quoin-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1969
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, 2, Little Lane, Aynho, OX17 3BJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 513 331
- Coordinates
- 51.99455, -1.25418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a cottage built around 1720. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and has a stone slate roof, with stone and brick stacks. The building is L-shaped, two storeys high, and has two bays. On the ground floor, there are two sash windows with wooden lintels, while the upper floor features two 20th-century casement windows, also with wooden lintels. At the rear, there is a left-side extension from the 18th century, which is two storeys high and has three bays, along with a 20th-century doorway. Inside, there is an open fireplace that includes a bread oven.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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