Ivy House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Memorial.

Ivy House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
shifting-stone-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff North MP: Anna McMorrin (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 October 1977
Type
Memorial
Address
Ivy House Farmhouse, Tongwynlais
OS grid reference
ST 131 820
Coordinates
51.53086, -3.25332
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ivy House Farmhouse is a small two-storey farmhouse consisting of two adjoining wings, with the later northeast wing featuring a lower ridge to its roof. The building is constructed of whitewashed stone rubble and has a Welsh slate roof, with end and ridge stacks, two of which are topped with 19th-century decorative yellow terracotta pots.

The riverside wing, which is the earlier section, has a two-window range of 2-light wood casements with small panes at the heads, and cambered heads on the ground floor. There is a central painted yellow brick gabled porch with a segmental arched doorway. The uphill wing has a single window range with similar windows, and to the right and centre left is a gabled brick porch featuring a pointed arched doorway. On either side of the wings are single-storey outshuts with small pointed arched windows that have Gothick glazing.

Inside the riverside wing, there is a large open fireplace with a bread oven, alongside a spiral stone staircase. The porch opens directly into this room, which has a separate narrow room downhill and access to the uphill wing through a door beside the fireplace. The uphill wing includes a corridor leading from the second porch, a parlour with a replaced fireplace, and a separate staircase that runs parallel to the back wall, along with a kitchen outshut.

Local climate

Ivy House Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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