Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. A C17 Cottage.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-span-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Woodlands End, Mells
- OS grid reference
- ST 729 491
- Coordinates
- 51.24056, -2.38889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located at Woodlands End in Mells. It is built from Doulting rubble with squared quoins and features a thatched roof. The cottage has a rectangular and picturesque shape, standing two stories high with two bays. Most of the windows are casements, except for the left opening on the ground floor, which has a three-light ovolo moulded stone mullioned window with a stopped label. The central door opening is framed by a 20th-century gabled wooden porch with a glazed door. There is also a 20th-century pent roofed outshut of a single bay to the right.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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