Ivy Lodge Farmhouse

GISLINGHAM WALSHAM ROAD (SOUTH SIDE) TM 07 SE 2/63 Ivy Lodge Farm House - GV II

Shown on OS Map as Back Street. Farmhouse. Early to mid C17, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled roofs. 2 bays to front with 3 bays at right angles to form an L on plan. 2 storeys and attics. Parlour and stack bays to left have 2 and 3-light leaded casements, transomed to parlour. Axial ridge stack to right of centre has fillets to front and back, rebuilt capping. Projecting slightly to right is gable front of hall and service bays; similar windows, coving to oversailing attic, bargeboards. Right return has a half glazed door into hall, a stable door into kitchen to rear, C20 casements and lean-to outshut. Internal axial ridge stack to kitchen to rear, lean-to dairy replacing an earlier wing on rear gable end. Parlour left gable end has brackets to exposed plate to oversailing attic. To rear a C19 panelled door into parlour, catslide roof over a lean-to behind stack bay with a half glazed door, inner return of lean-to has a panelled door. Interior: frame largely concealed, some good studding with chamfered mid-rails, stop chamfered binding beams, late C17 and C18 panelling in parlour with an C18 cornice, newel staircase in front of stack. Butt purlin roof with chamfered principals, arched windbraces.

Listing NGR: TM0682170947