Ivy Bank and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. Farmhouse.

Ivy Bank and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
distant-bronze-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Ivy Bank and Attached Barn, Mill Lane, Cold Higham
OS grid reference
SP 651 535
Coordinates
52.17661, -1.04876
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ivy Bank is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house, dating from the 18th century but with earlier origins. The building underwent changes in the 19th century, including raising the eaves and replacing windows, along with further alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from coursed squared limestone, partly banded with ironstone, and features an asbestos slate roof with brick stacks at the ends and along the ridge.

The house has a three-unit plan and is two stories high, with a two-window range and a one-bay extension. The central entrance is a 20th-century glazed door, flanked by four tripartite sash windows on the ground floor. The first floor has two casement windows that mimic the tripartite sash style, all featuring wooden lintels; the first-floor windows have stop-chamfered lintels. To the right, there is a slightly lower extension made of coursed squared ironstone. The slate roof extends over a weatherboarded loft above a carriage arch on the right side, which connects the house to an attached barn.

The barn, which has five bays, is built from coursed squared ironstone and topped with a corrugated iron roof. It features central double-leaf opposed plank doors with wooden lintels.

Local climate

Ivy Bank and Attached Barn 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 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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