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Ivy House is a Grade II listed property in the English village of Spaldwick, eight miles west of Huntingdon in the county of Cambridgeshire. It is the oldest continually habited house in Spaldwick.

The house bears the incription 'PD 1688' above the front door however a date of 1582 was recently discovered during some excavation in a previously hidden fireplace. Thus, by supposition and consistent with the nearby pub The George built in 1584, 1582 is likely to be the year Ivy House was built. It is believed that Percy Dorrington, a former Yeoman who had served for 40 years moved to the House around 1688, undertaking considerable restoration work, including the plasterwork above the doorway bearing his initials.

Described by Sidney Inskip Ladds, archictect, historian, author, church resporer and Diocesan surveyor for Ely as "a red brick house with pilasters having stone caps of a Renaissance design"