Ivy Cottage And Adjoining Walls

Ivy Cottage and adjoining walls date from approximately 1700, with later 19th-century additions. The house was designed and built for Sir Thomas Parkyns of Bunny Hall. It is constructed of red brick, some ashlar, with a plain tile roof. The brick gables are coped with ashlar kneelers and single ashlar orb finials. Raised eaves are formed with ashlar at the corners, extending to the gable walls. A first-floor band also extends to the left gable wall. The house is set on a plinth and follows a lobby entry plan, being two storeys plus a garret, with four bays. The front doorway has a fielded panel and glazed door with a panelled reveal. To the right of the doorway is a single ashlar mullion 2-light casement window, while to the left are two similar casements. Above are four similar casement windows. A lean-to is positioned to the right. The right gable features a single similar casement window on the first and garret floors, each with a dripmould over the garret window. The left gable also has a single similar casement on each floor, the garret window also with a dripmould. There is a lean-to to the rear.

Attached to the rear left of the house is a coped brick wall with an arched domestic doorway and a plank door. To the right of the lean-to, a 19th-century ashlar-coped red brick wall extends approximately one metre, terminating in a small brick pier with shaped and painted coping. From this pier, a low ashlar-coped red brick wall extends for about 21 metres in front of the house, topped with iron railings. This terminates in a similar pier and is punctuated by a central gateway with an iron gate and two painted piers topped with single orb finials. The interior includes large chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, and is reputed to contain good late 18th-century fire grates. Sir Thomas Parkyns (c.1662-1741) carried out extensive improvements and rebuilding work in Bunny, using his own designs.