Ivy Cottage (North Range Only)

SD 52 NW PENWORTHAM PRIORY LANE (east side) 4/141 No 16 (Ivy Cottage) (north range only) II

Farmhouse, now house. Late Cl7, extended in C19, renovated in C20 (added wing at right angles to right-hand end, not included in the item). Perhaps formerly timber-framed, but now rough cast over brick, with composition tile roof (replacing thatch). Two-unit end-lobby-entry plan, with 3rd unit added at right-hand end. One and a half storeys; entry now via doorway in added wing, which covers former doorway at right hand end of 2nd bay; modern bow window to 2nd bay, a modern 3- light casement to the left, and 2 similar windows as dormers in the roof, which is steeply pitched, with overhanging eaves, and has one chimney now behind the ridge at the right-hand end of the 2nd unit. Left gable has a casement off-centre at 1st floor. Rear has inter alia a 6-light wooden mullion window to the 2nd bay , with original diamond-leaded glazing in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6th lights, and a smaller 4-light firewindow to the left, both these with wooden sills and lintels.

Interior: timber-framed-partition between first and second bays, incorporating newel post of former spiral newel staircase; in the house part (2nd bay), 2 stop- chamfered beams, that to the front supported on a heck post, with a brace to the beam; exposed joists, late C18 rectangular stone fireplace with plain jambs and lintel, to the left of this a saltcupboard with Cl7 fluted frieze and handmade hinges, to the right a small rectangular window (both these with wooden lintels); in the 1st bay (service end) a spine beam with stone holes of former wattle-and-daub partition; at 1st floor, a collar-truss with interrupted tie-beam, raked struts, and a long curved wind brace to the rear purlin; and at the other end of the 2nd bay (probably formerly the east gable) remains of timber-framing including part of the tie beam and 2 vertical struts.

Listing NGR: SD5201928536