Ivy House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. Farmhouse.
Ivy House
- WRENN ID
- plain-clay-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ivy House, Station Road, Elmswell
- OS grid reference
- TL 989 639
- Coordinates
- 52.23773, 0.91166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy House is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It is a single storey building with attics and has a three-cell plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with the parlour cell on the right featuring an oversailing gable tiebeam that has double ovolo-moulding and a pair of console brackets underneath. The roof is covered with concrete plain tiles and includes an axial chimney from the early 17th century made of red brick, which has a sawtooth shaft that was largely rebuilt in the 19th century, along with an original base that has an ovolo-moulded cornice. There are three gabled casement dormers from the 19th century, late 19th century sash windows with large panes, and mid-20th century French doors. A glazed door is located at the approximate position of the cross entry on the garden side, while the main entrance has been moved to the rear of a 19th or 20th century extension.
Local climate
Ivy House 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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