Ivy House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Ivy House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-hammer-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ivy House, Wantage Road, Great Shefford, RG17 7DA
- OS grid reference
- SU 383 752
- Coordinates
- 51.47503, -1.44859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy House is a cottage dating to the 17th century. The left side of the building is weatherboarded, the centre is timber-framed with brick infill, and the right side is flint with brick dressings. It has a thatched roof, half-hipped on the right and hipped on the left, with a central chimney. The right side features a large modern casement window, while the central entrance has a gabled hood supported by cut brackets, and an angled bay with a tiled roof on the left. The first floor has two casements, with the thatch swept around them.
Local climate
Ivy House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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