Ivyhouse Thicknesse Cottage Well Cottage

Ivy House, Thicknesse Cottage, and Well Cottage are three cottages built around 1600, originally designed as a two-cell lobby-entrance plan house. They were subdivided and extended at the back to form three separate cottages in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The buildings are two storeys high, constructed with timber framing and plaster, while the gable wall of Ivy House is covered with plain tiles. The cottages feature a pantiled roof with internal red brick chimneys and mainly 19th-century small-pane casement windows. Each cottage has an open 19th-century entrance porch that is gabled, has a plaintiled roof, and includes cusped bargeboards, along with glazed panelled entrance doors. The central chimney serves back-to-back open fireplaces. The roof structure includes wind-braced clasped purlins and arch-braced close-studwork. Ivy House reveals two original ovolo-moulded mullioned windows. Attached to Ivy House is a two-storey early 19th-century extension featuring small-pane sash windows, and the ceiling displays 17th-century fleur-de-lys motifs, possibly reset from the adjoining room.