Ivy Cottage

Ivy Cottage is a cottage dating from around the mid-17th century or earlier. It is colourwashed and rendered, likely built from stone, and features a thatched roof that is hipped at both ends and extends as a catslide to a rear outshut. The cottage has a central stack with a brick chimney. The layout consists of a single depth main block that is two rooms wide, with back-to-back fireplaces located in the central stack. The entrance is situated on the front to the right of the centre, partially against the side of the chimneybreast, and there is a 19th-century porch along with a second entrance on the left end wall. The rear outshut may have been added later, and there are stairs located to the rear right within this outshut.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front featuring two windows. The front door, which is a plank and cover strip style from the 19th century, is positioned to the right of centre. The windows are small pane timber casements, with the exception of a probable 18th-century iron casement on the first floor left, which has square leaded panes. There is also a painted gabled back porch on the left return.

Inside, both ground floor rooms have chamfered stopped cross beams, and the right-hand fireplace boasts a chamfered scroll-stopped lintel. On the first floor, there is a blocked slit window on the right end wall. The roof timbers were not accessible during the survey in 1986 but may hold further interest. Ivy Cottage is noted for being an unusually small and very unspoilt example of a 17th-century cottage.