Ivy House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1988. House.

Ivy House

WRENN ID
stark-roof-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Folkestone and Hythe
Constituency
Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1988
Type
House
Address
Ivy House, Bossingham Road, Stelling Minnis
OS grid reference
TR 147 480
Coordinates
51.19162, 1.07216
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ivy House is a house that likely dates from the 18th century. It has a timber frame, with the ground floor rendered and exposed framing featuring painted brick infilling on the first floor. There is a painted brick addition on the left side. The roof is covered with plain tiles and is hipped with a gablet on the right. The house consists of two timber-framed bays, with a later addition to the left, and is two storeys tall. The first floor has broadly-spaced studding and a concave 'arch' brace at the left end. A brick ridge stack is located at the right end of the left timber-framed bay.

The windows are irregularly arranged, featuring three two-light casements: one in the left addition, one to the left of the stack, and one to the right. There are also three small two-light casements on the ground floor, with the leftmost having a segmental head. A ribbed door is located in a gabled brick porch with a plain tile roof, positioned just to the right of the stack. At the rear, there is a lean-to, and to the right, another lean-to with a weatherboarded gable and a plain tile roof.

Inside, the house contains re-used timber from an earlier house dating back to the early 16th century or earlier. The left ground-floor room features an axial beam and unchamfered joists, while the right ground-floor room has an axial beam with remnants of end-of-hall moulding on the front side, a morticed soffit, and broad, contemporary joists on the rear side. The interior also includes gunstock-jowled posts and arch-braced tie-beams, as well as brick fireplaces with bressumers in each room.

Local climate

Ivy House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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