Ivy Cottage Jessmine Cottage

Jessmine Cottage and Ivy Cottage are a pair of farmhouses that have been divided into two cottages. They date from the late 17th century and may include parts of an earlier building, with later additions and alterations. The cottages are timber framed with painted brick infill, cladding, or rebuilding, and feature machine tile roofs with tile coping on the left gable end of the hall range.

The structure has a basic L-plan layout, consisting of a hall range, which appears to have two and a half framed bays, and a flush gabled cross-wing that projects to the rear on the right. There is a one-bay gabled range attached to the rear of the cross-wing, which may have originally been part of the cross-wing but has a different roof pitch. The buildings are one storey with an attic.

The framing of the range at the rear of the cross-wing includes square and rectangular panels, with three panels from the cill to the wall-plate and short straight braces from the wall posts to the tie beam. This section has been partly rebuilt in brick and is painted black and white to imitate traditional timber framing. The rear gable of the cross-wing features a truncated queen-post truss. The hall range, which is made of earlier brick than the cross-wing, has a 20th-century casement window in a wider infilled segmental-headed opening at the center, with a small window to the right. Above this, a gabled dormer breaks the eaves and contains a 20th-century window. There is a truncated integral end stack on the left side.

The cross-wing has segmental-headed early 20th-century casements on the front, with two on the ground floor and one above. It also has an integral end stack at the rear and a truncated end stack on the front gable of the range attached to the rear. To the right of the cross-wing, there is a catslide outshut. The interior was not inspected during the resurvey in February 1987, but it is likely to be of interest.