Ivy House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 July 1980. Farmhouse.
Ivy House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-lintel-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 July 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ivy House Farmhouse, High Street, Laxton, Laxton and Moorhouse
- OS grid reference
- SK 720 670
- Coordinates
- 53.19571, -0.92346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy House Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that was refronted and extended in the mid-18th century. It is constructed from brick and coursed squared rubble, with dressed stone quoins and a steeply pitched 20th-century plain tile roof. The building features a chamfered and plain stone plinth, a brick plinth, and is partly rendered. The eaves are rebated and partly dentillated, and there are three ridge stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high with garrets and has an L-plan layout with four bays.
On the left side, there is a 20th-century door flanked by a double sash window on the left and three sash windows on the right. Above, there are four sash windows, all with segmental heads. The west gable includes a 19th-century toilet block made of brick with a lean-to pantile roof, and above it to the right is an 18th-century Yorkshire sash window, along with a blocked opening. The south front has a double-gabled rear wing. To the left, there is a 20th-century casement window and door with a segmental head. To their right are three casements, the rightmost of which has a segmental head and a stone lintel. Above, there are four casements with segmental heads, one of which has a stone lintel. A cellar to the right of the rear wings features a casement with a segmental head on the east side. The east gable has a 20th-century sash window in the garret.
Inside, the southern section has jowls of two posts, and the principal rafter roof includes double tenoned purlins and wind braces, with some common rafters renewed. There is a two-flight oak winder stair in the southwest and a 19th-century winder stair with a turned newel in the east. The interior also features two stud walls with lath and plaster infill and three span beams, one of which has stops. A cased fireplace bressummer is also present.
Local climate
Ivy House Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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