Ivy Lodge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. A Early Modern Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Ivy Lodge Farmhouse

WRENN ID
stubborn-quartz-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 August 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Early Modern
Address
Ivy Lodge Farmhouse, Chimers Lane, Hoo, IP13 7QF
OS grid reference
TM 239 571
Coordinates
52.16744, 1.27386
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ivy Lodge Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse that features a timber-framed structure with colourwashed render and a plain tile roof, which was likely originally thatched. The building is a single storey with an attic and has a three-cell plan.

On the entrance front, there is a doorway on the right with a 19th-century door that has four flush lower panels and two upper glazed panels, aligned with the screens passage. To the right of the doorway is a 19th-century four-light casement window, while to the left are one four-light and one three-light casement window. The left bay has colourwashed brick walling and may have been built later. The first floor features a three-light gabled dormer window near the centre. An axial stack with two flues, mostly rebuilt in 19th-century brick, is located at the ridge to the left of centre.

The right gable end has a door similar to the one on the entrance front and a four-light window on the first floor, with an outshut to the right that includes a cambered-headed three-light window. The left gable end has a doorway left of centre, with a six-by-three pane window to its right, and to the left, there is a single-light window and a three-light casement window on the first floor. The rear of the farmhouse features an outshut that runs the length of the ground floor, topped with a slate roof, and a two-light gabled dormer window on the first floor at the left.

Inside, the screens passage has chamfered muntins and cross rails. Two service rooms lead off from this passage, one of which has a blocked doorway and close-studded walling. The hall features a chamfered ceiling beam with stepped lamb's tongue end stops that rest on jowled wall posts, along with plain joists.

Local climate

Ivy Lodge Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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