Ivy Cottage

Ivy Cottage is a late medieval house featuring a cruck-framed structure. The left side wall displays part of the cruck-blades and tie beam, while the building is constructed from chalk rubble with brick dressings on the left bay, an 18th-century stretcher bond brick center bay, and a combination of brick, chalk, and flint rubble on the right bay. The roof is gabled and half-hipped, covered with old tiles, and has a brick ridge stack. The layout consists of a 4-unit plan that has been modified to a 3-unit plan with a central hall. The house has two storeys and a three-window range, with timber lintels above two 20th-century doors and 20th-century casements. Inside, there are chamfered and stopped beams on the left side. The interior retains three full crucks with trenched through purlins from the original four-bay house, and smoke-blackened beams are present in the hall, which is the central room of the current three-bay house. The bay to the right collapsed in the 20th century. Ivy Cottage is an interesting example of a small late medieval hall house.