Ivy Dear Cottage

Ivy Dear Cottage is a house that was later divided into three dwellings, built in the early to mid 17th century in two phases and altered in the 20th century. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. It has a three-cell plan, with the parlour and stack bays on the right representing the earlier section, while the three hall and service bays on the left appear to be a later rebuild. The cottage is one storey and has an attic throughout.

The central entrance features a 20th-century projecting lean-to porch, with 20th-century windows on the far left. The upper storey has earlier two-light glazing bar casements and a central eyebrow thatched two-light dormer. There are two ridge stacks, one on the right and one to the left of centre, with the left stack being slightly larger. The left or service end of the roof is hipped with a catslide over a clay lump lean-to outshut. The right or parlour gable end has two-light casements, with exposed plates and purlins. At the rear, there are two-light casements and a single-storey 20th-century pantiled outbuilding on the left.

Inside, the parlour features close studding, a stop-chamfered axial binding beam, cranked braces in the walling, and removed arched braces to cambered tie beams. The hall includes an ogee stopped fireplace bressumer, stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams, jowled storey posts, and arched braces to a tie beam, all of which have been reroofed.