Ivy House

WARMINSTER CHURCH STREET 1. 5411 (West Side) No 3 (Ivy House) ST 8645 SE 5/73 28.4.52.

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1. C18. 2 storey and attic, part with basement. Brick on projecting rubble plinth with moulded capping. Moulded stone cornice, and old tile roof. The left hand part of house is original, later alterations to right hand, but generally in harmony. Older portion of front, which is a complete design:- 2 segmental headed dormers, with small cornice and key block; 3 windows on 1st floor, 2 windows on ground floor, and tall 6-panel door to right hand in deep recess with painted stone surround of moulded architrave and carried under soffit, in an outer rusticated frame with console brackets, modillioned triglyph entablature, broken over brackets, and moulded open pediment. Semi-circular fanlight in tympanum with carved wood pattern forming initials S and W interlaced, with leaf ornament. 2 two-light cellar windows. The remodelling of the older right wing in mid C19 altered the elevation to 3 storeys with plain brick gable. 2 windows on 1st and ground floor, glazing bar sashes except 1st floor to right, one casement to 2nd (attic) floor, stone lintels grooved as brick. Modern linking bay to stable block. Set back from road with C18 angle rusticated stone piers with early C19 spear head rails and gate. 3 window older 2 1/2 storey wing to rear with 3 dormers, altered fenestration on 1st floor and stone mullion window on ground floor; the door piece is good: stone architrave, relieving arch with herringbone brick infil and inverted triangle of tumbled brick over. Some wind braces retained in roof. Interior of main part has flat lozenge pattern rails to staircase.

Listing NGR: ST8690645166