Ivy Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1957. A C17 Farmhouse.
Ivy Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- distant-footing-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1957
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ivy Farmhouse, 393, Gosbrook Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 723 745
- Coordinates
- 51.46517, -0.95928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Farmhouse is a late 18th century casing of a mid-17th century building, formerly known as Ivy Cottage. The structure has two storeys and an attic, constructed from red and silver-grey brick on a rendered flint plinth. There is a string course at the first floor level and an old tiled roof. A central square chimney, likely dating from around 1650 or possibly older, features a corbelled head. The building has three bays with modern glazing bar sash windows. The central door, which is modern, has a segmental head and is set in a plain frame. A 19th-century trellis leads to the entrance, supported by cast-iron panel standards, with a post and lintel structure and weatherboarded end facing the street. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace and curved collars supporting the roof trusses. The rear of the house is built in a T-plan with brick and flint.
Local climate
Ivy Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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