Ivy Cottage

MAWGAN-IN-PYDAR BALL LANE SW 86 NE 1/67 Ivy Cottage - II

School, now house. Circa 1820, including re-used materials of C17; C20 alterations and additions. Stone rubble and cob, rendered. Asbestos slate roof with gable ends. Gable end stack to right with brick shaft. Plan: Single room for a school room, heated from a stack At the right gable end and with a porch entrance at centre of front. Divided internally in C20 with a rear addition. Exterior: Single storey, asymmetrical front with porch set off-centre to left. The porch has a steep gable, re-used C17 granite doorway with 4-centred arch and recessed spandrels, plank door. In the gable a round-arched niche on a corbel, with painted lettering in upper case of C19, IVY COTTAGE. To right and left is a 3-light window, with round-arched lights. The right end is blind with a small single storey lean-to. The left end formerly had a similar 3-light window, now blocked. Rear has C20 single storey lean-to. Interior: Not inspected. Ivy Cottage was used as a school for the Carnanton estate; it became a house after the St Mawgan School (q.v.) was built in 1863.

Listing NGR: SW8720065273