Ivy Cottage

TL 4551 LITTLE SHELFORD WHITTLESFORD ROAD (South West Side)

19/171 No.16 (Ivy Cottage)

II

Cottage, early C18 enlarged in early and late C19. Timber framed brick and clunch, rendered with steeply pitched pantiled and plain tiled roofs. Early C18 ridge stack to cottage. Cottage of three bay, lobby entry plan with lean-to at rear. One storey and attics. One C19 gable dormer and two horizontal sliding sashes with small panes and a hung sash of twelve panes on either side of doorway in early C19 gabled porch with pointed lights to side walls. The garden wing is early C19, incorporating the gable end of the cottage. Clunch, rendered with a mansard roof, plain tiled. Two storeys. Central doorway flanked on left hand by a two storey bow window with a tripartite hung sash to each storey. A similar window on right hand to attic storey of gable end of cottage and a bow window at ground floor also with a tripartite hung sash. Inside the centre room of the cottage retains its original staircase and another room has early C19 details including slender fluted engaged columns and a panelled dado. The cottage is associated with the Wale and Altham family who have retained ownership since 1701.

Listing NGR: TL4543651518