Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Ivy Cottage
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, 82, the Green, St. Mary, South Elmham Otherwise Homersfield, IP20 0ET
- OS grid reference
- TM 284 855
- Coordinates
- 52.42049, 1.35794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a pair of cottages located in Homersfield, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with parts of an older structure incorporated. The cottages are 1½ storeys high and are timber-framed, featuring old render with remnants of lined panels and thatched roofs. An internal chimney stack divides the two cottages, with two diagonally-set square shafts connected by broaches to a rectangular base.
The front has four windows, which are old 3-light casement windows with pintle hinges; the ground floor windows include transoms. There are two slightly recessed plank doors with plain surrounds. A later chimney stack is located at the right end, integrated within the frame.
No. 82 consists of two bays and has an exposed ceiling on the ground floor, with unchamfered joists set flat and a deep, narrow main beam. The front wall plate shows mortices for earlier studding, indicating a fragment of an earlier building. Inside No. 83, only the main beams are visible on the ground floor, as an original partition wall has been moved.
On the upper floors of both cottages, there is widely spaced studding, cambered tie beams, and some reused timbers. The lightweight roof features two rows of butt purlins, and in the end bay, straight braces are positioned behind the purlins, bisecting the common rafters.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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