Ivy Cottage, Mayfields and School House is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House.
Ivy Cottage, Mayfields and School House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-pier-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, Mayfields and School House, Ridding Bank, Swynnerton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 848 412
- Coordinates
- 52.96865, -2.22696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage, Mayfields, and School House is a building of medieval origin that has undergone significant alterations and is now divided into three dwellings. The structure is T-shaped in plan. The hall wing on the right side, known as Mayfield, features a modern cement-rendered front, but retains an earlier timber frame that is exposed internally. This wing includes a central cruck truss, cruck spurs, stop-chamfered ceiling beams on the ground floor, and a large stone chimney at the east end, which has an inglenook fireplace with a deep roll-moulded beam.
Ivy Cottage is an early 19th-century two-storey brick wing located at the rear. The cross wing on the left side, identified as School House, dates from the 17th century and is constructed of exposed timber frame with square panel studwork. This section is also two storeys high and features a front gable with a billet-moulded soffit to the tie beam and cruciform ornamented studwork below. The building has modern windows set on old brackets and is covered with tiles throughout.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage, Mayfields and School House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
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