Ivy House Farmhouse

SUNK ISLAND BRICK ROAD TA 22 SE (north side, off) 6/76 Ivy House Farmhouse GV II

Wrongly marked as Patrington Farm on Ordnance Survey map. Farmhouse. 1856 by S S Teulon for The Crown Commissioners; some later alterations. Red- brown brick in English bond. Concrete pantile roof. Approximately square on plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall south front with 2-room wing to rear left and twin gabled range in angle. 2 storeys. South front: 3 bays, symmetrical. Chamfered plinth. Projecting full-height gabled porch has a keyed chamfered round-arched outer entrance with half-glazed panelled door, pair of narrow chamfered round-headed first-floor sashes with glazing bars, recessed panel above in a chamfered segmental-pointed arch reveal with lozenge-shaped relief tablet bearing crown, royal cypher and date in incised quatrefoil; gable with stepped eaves band, tumbled-in brick and a decorative lozenge-shaped brick panel. Single round-headed sashes to porch sides. Side bays have full-length 12-pane ground-floor sashes in flush wooden architraves beneath keyed segmental arches, 16-pane first-floor sashes in flush wooden architraves beneath cambered arches. All ground-floor openings have rubbed-brick stretcher arches with red and blue brick header arches above, and painted raised brick keys. Stepped eaves. Buttressed end stack to left with gableted offsets and banded shaft. Left return forms secondary west front: C20 inserted glazed door and overlight in lengthened original window opening with keyed segmental arch similar to south front, flanked by 12-pane sash to right in recessed architrave, and wide C20 16-pane sash to left in former full-length opening, beneath similar arches. 3 original first-floor 12-pane casements to left beneath cambered arches. Gable to right has decorative flush yellow and red brick round panel, stepped eaves. Right return has twin gables, that to right with 9-pane sashes beneath segmental arches and pointed relieving arches, and gableted end stack. Interior: in "Georgian" style, with 6-fielded-panel and 6-beaded-panel doors in architraves, moulded cornices, and open well staircase with column-on- vase balusters; inner entrance has pointed half-glazed panelled door, overlight and sidelights with geometric glazing. One of a series of mid C19 Crown Estate buildings by Teulon. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, The East Riding, 1972, pp 351-2; Victoria County History: York, East Riding, vol 5, 1984, pp 135-9.

Listing NGR: TA2831820932