Ivy House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Farmhouse.

Ivy House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
second-postern-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Ivy House Farmhouse, Cake Street, Laxfield
OS grid reference
TM 278 735
Coordinates
52.31273, 1.34094
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ivy House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the 19th century. It is timber framed and has a roughcast render exterior, with both slated and pantiled roofs. The earliest part of the building has a two-cell layout with a central axial stack, and there is a later wing to the north. The west half of the two-cell range was raised in the 19th century and likely extended to the south at the same time, resulting in a three-storey structure with a hipped roof. The facade features three 19th-century mullion and transom casements that do not have glazing bars. There is a doorway with a 19th-century six-panel door, where the upper four panels are glazed, flanked by pilasters and an entablature. The two-cell section includes ovolo-moulded floor beams and cross-beams at the west end, although much of the structure is concealed.

Local climate

Ivy House Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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