Ivy Cottage

Ivy Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the mid-17th century or possibly earlier, and restored in the 20th century. It is constructed of slate rubble, with rendered cob walls above the ground-floor window on the left-hand front and to the rear. The roof is thatched, gabled at the left-hand end and half-hipped at the right-hand end, with eyebrowed eaves over the first-floor windows. A large, projecting slate rubble stack is positioned at the left-hand gable end, featuring set-offs and a tapered shaft with slate weathering. A further, projecting lateral stack is at the back of the right-hand end, slate-hung on its sides, with a rendered, tapered shaft and a projecting round oven with a slate roof at its base. The original plan comprised two rooms and a central cross passage. The slightly larger left-hand room was likely a parlour, heated by the gable-end stack; the right-hand room served as a kitchen, featuring a rear lateral stack with an oven. The original position of the staircase is uncertain, but a 20th-century staircase has been installed against the back wall and across the end of the passage. A section of the partition between the left-hand room and the passage has been removed. A small, single-storey extension was added in the 20th century to the right-hand end, set back from the main structure. The exterior presents a nearly symmetrical three-window facade. The first floor features 20th-century two-light casements, and the ground floor has 20th-century casements with two lights to the left and three lights to the right, all with leaded panes and slate cills. A 20th-century nail-studded door and slated canopy, supported on timber cantilevers, are at the central doorway. The rear elevation has asymmetrical fenestration with 20th-century casements and a large lateral stack to the left. Inside the left-hand room, a replaced cross beam has thin ovolo moulding, and the joists are chamfered with hollow step stops; the fireplace has a chamfered wooden lintel with notched stops. The right-hand room has closely spaced ceiling joists, and a stop chamfered, heavily cambered timber lintel is visible over the rear lateral fireplace, which incorporates an oven. A plastered stud partition separates the passage and the right-hand room, while only vertical studs remain of the partition between the left-hand room and the passage, with some studs being reused chamfered joists. The roof structure is reported to have been replaced.