Ivy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House.
Ivy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-pewter-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage, the Street, Bacton
- OS grid reference
- TM 048 669
- Coordinates
- 52.26279, 1.00066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century. It has two storeys and a two-cell lobby-entrance plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof featuring an axial chimney, which was rebuilt in 19th century red brick.
The cottage has various windows, including a two-storey late 18th century splayed bay window with a flat roof and small-pane sash windows on the gable facing the road. There is a 20th century window that incorporates a late 18th century fanlight with delicate radiating bars, which was brought in from another location.
On one side wall, there is a 19th century conservatory supported by cast iron columns with traceried brackets. Inside, there is a central chimney with an open fireplace that has a deep cambered lintel. The house also features several blocked or fragmentary diamond mullioned windows, arch wind-braced studwork, and unchamfered floor joists. The coupled-rafter roof over the larger cell indicates that there was once a half-hip.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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