Ivy House, The Old Bakery and Fig Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. House. 4 related planning applications.
Ivy House, The Old Bakery and Fig Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-column-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy House, The Old Bakery and Fig Tree Cottage, High Street, Brasted, Westerham, TN16 1JA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 472 551
- Coordinates
- 51.27658, 0.10958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy House, The Old Bakery, and Fig Tree Cottage are a range of timber-framed buildings dating from the 16th century or earlier, with 18th and 19th-century facades. The buildings are two storeys high and have a total of six windows. The main block, which has five windows, features a high-pitched hipped gabled tiled roof with a rebuilt chimney. The right section, Ivy House, has a tile-hung first floor and a painted brick ground floor. The first floor has modern casement windows with glazing bars, while the ground floor includes two modern shop windows with bars, one of which is a canted bay situated between two half-glazed doors. The left door features a primitive vermiculate lintel and a console bracketed cornice, while the right door has pilasters and a modified entablature with a canopy extending over the shop window.
The left section, known as The Old Bakery, has a 19th-century brick front with two sash windows on the first floor. The ground floor features a 19th-century shop front with spiral twist columns and a modillion cornice above the window, along with panelled pilasters and a cornice on fluted brackets above the door. The lower, one-bay left section, Fig Tree Cottage, is under a hipped tiled roof and has a 19th-century brick front with sash windows on the first floor and a late 19th-century shop front on the ground floor.
Ivy House, The Old Bakery, and Fig Tree Cottage are part of a group that includes Eversley and Dilgerts, Darenth Cottage, Markwick, Nigel Coleman Antiques, No 5 Barton's Cottages, and Nos 1 to 4 Barton's Cottages.
Local climate
Ivy House, The Old Bakery and Fig Tree Cottage 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 lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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