Ivy House

Ivy House is an early 18th-century house, extended in later centuries, with group value. The main part has an ashlar front and a stone-tiled hipped roof with ashlar stacks. The original square range is positioned to the left, featuring a formal east front. Two additional parallel ranges were added to the north, one forming the left side of the formal west front. Both additions have hipped gables to the east.

The original range has a fine, three-window Baroque front, characterised by quoin pilasters, a moulded plinth, a moulded coved cornice, and a parapet with sunken panels and ramped ends. A two-story centrepiece rises through the cornice into the parapet, featuring a 12-pane sash in a fluted Roman Doric pilaster surround with a segmental pediment. Above it is another 12-pane, segmental-headed sash within an architrave framed by a fluted Ionic pilaster surround with an ornate pediment. The side windows are segmental-headed sashes in architraves with keystones, moulded sills, and apron panels. The aprons below the upper windows have pendants, with the centre pendant acting as the keystone of the lower window. To the right are hipped ends of the two parallel ranges, the first featuring a hipped 9-pane dormer, two plain upper sashes, a moulded band, and a lower, segmental-headed sash in an architrave. A door to the left leads to a passage between the ranges, which in turn leads to a passage with an elliptical-arched doorway featuring a keystone and hood on brackets, the hood incorporated into the side walls. A later, early 20th-century rubble stone range with ashlar quoins is also present, featuring a two-story, two-window east end with segmental-headed sashes on the ground floor. A north side stack is visible.

The south side of the original range, facing Priory Street, mirrors the east front with quoin pilasters and a cornice; it includes two large chimney gables and a largely blank two-story elevation arranged in a 1-3-1 pattern. The centre features an arched window to the first floor and an arched door below, closely flanked by blank windows and plain pilasters. The ground floor centre is recessed within a broad elliptical arch with a moulded course, stepped over and repeated within the keystones. A tall, eight-panel door is positioned centrally.

The north front has a central composition with wings, with a rendered centre and hipped ashlar wings. A very large 40-pane stair light illuminates the centre, accompanied by quoin pilasters and a two-window range of 12-pane sashes to the wings. A large, 19th-century canted ashlar bay replaced the ground floor window on the right. The basement centre displays an ovolo-moulded, two-light mullion window. The north parallel range includes a projecting lower west end section and a south-facing door with a bracketed hood, as well as cyma-moulded mullion windows, which are largely 20th-century replacements.

The interior is notable for a fine stair hall with bead-moulded fireplace. The staircase features lozenge-patterned tread ends, carved brackets, alternating twisted and fluted balusters, and a moulded rail. A panelled dado includes fluted pilasters.