Ivy House

Ivy House is a late 17th- and early 18th-century house that has been extended and divided, with further alterations in the 20th century. The house is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings, and has hipped, plain tiled roofs. It has a roughly L-shaped plan, with a wing projecting to the left.

The original section of the house has three storeys, while the wing has two. Rear end stacks are present on the original range, and further stacks are on the left of the wing, each topped with corbelled details. The right angle has a cement-rendered pier and shallow plat bands marking the ground and first floors. There are boxed wooden eaves. The front elevation, with three bays, features three nine-pane, glazing-bar sash windows on the second floor, set beneath renewed gauged brick heads. A central window projects slightly, with dressings extending down to the central first-floor window. Three twelve-pane, glazing-bar sash windows are on the first floor, also under gauged brick heads, with ogee cut brick decoration to the head of the central window. The ground floor has two twelve-pane, glazing-bar sash windows, one on either side of a six-panel door. The door is set within a panelled strip surround with a traceried fanlight and an open pediment supported by console brackets.

The left-hand wing has two twelve-pane first-floor sash windows and two 20th-century windows below. A moulded eaves cornice runs along the roof edge. A return front has one glazing-bar sash window on the first floor and a ground-floor pentice extension with a mullioned and transomed glazing-bar casement window. The left-hand return front has three glazing-bar sash windows to the first floor, each with a canopy over the upper sash.

The house stands on the site of Cromwell House, a residence of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, dating from 1514 to 1522.