Ivy House

Ivy House is a house dating to the mid 17th century, with alterations circa 1800 and a late 19th-century extension. It is constructed of coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings, and has a Stonesfield-slate roof with stone-and-brick stacks. The house is arranged in an L-shape.

The main front, which faces the garden, has three windows on the principal elevation. It has a chamfered plinth, and breaks forward in the middle and right bays, which contain 4-pane sash windows above canted bay windows. The projecting section has a plain parapet with corner ball finials, forming a balcony, accessed from a dormer window containing a French window with Gothic glazing bars. The plinth returns around the gable walls; to the left, a small doorway has a 17th-century stop-chamfered lintel. To the right, there are stone splay-mullioned windows to the ground, first, and second floors, with 3, 3, and 2 lights respectively, all with labels and leaded glazing, plus a 2-light mullioned cellar window. A rear wing extends from the main range and has 18th-century leaded casements of 4 and 3 lights, converted from mullioned windows, with remaining labels. A blocked doorway in a Tudor-arched chamfered stone surround sits at the junction of the ranges. The rear of the main range contains three further splay-mullioned windows. The double-gabled rear wall of the wing includes four more windows, some serving the stair. All gables have parapets and projecting moulded kneelers, some with ball finials; the main roof retains the stone bases of three stacks.

A 19th-century porch with an arched doorway is situated in the angle of the ranges. Above it, in the rear wing, is a leaded cross window. A single-storey kitchen extension at the rear of the wing includes a 2-light leaded casement with transoms top and bottom, possibly re-used, and a smaller brick service range, dated 1876. Rainwater goods include two 18th-century moulded lead hopper heads and several 19th-century cast-iron heads ornamented with a lion rampant.

The interior features stop-chamfered beams, two Tudor-arched moulded stone fireplaces (one with recessed spandrels), a large open fireplace with a cambered bressumer, timber-framed partitions, an old plank exterior door with fleur-de-lys hinges (now re-set), three stop-chamfered attic door frames, an old moulded plank door and a butt-purlin roof. A circa 1800 oak stair has stick balusters and a ramped headrail. Other features include a 19th-century pump and stone sink.