Ivy Cottage

Ivy Cottage is a pair of cottages, originally a single house, dating from around the mid-17th century, with possible extensions in the 18th century, followed by 19th and 20th-century additions. The walls are rendered cob, and the roof is thatched, gabled at the left end and hipped at the right. A projecting stack of rendered rubble with a brick shaft is located at the left gable end, with a similar rear lateral stack.

The original plan likely comprised two rooms, the left-hand room heated by the end stack and the right-hand one by the rear stack. A further unheated room is at the right end, separated from the others by a thick wall, which may be an original service room or a later 18th-century addition. Single-storey rear additions were built in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with a three-window arrangement featuring 20th-century 2- and 3-light casement windows. The ground-floor windows have small panes, except for the right-hand window, which is a later, larger 20th-century replacement. A 20th-century stable-type door is towards the left-hand end, and a door to the right-hand cottage is located within a thatched roof outshut at the rear, alongside a further 20th-century single-storey addition.

Inside the right-hand cottage is an open fireplace with a wide chamfered lintel and a chamfered, unstopped ceiling beam. The left-hand cottage has a fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel with run-out stops. A small first-floor fireplace features a chamfered and hollow step-stopped wooden lintel. Ground-floor ceiling beams are also chamfered with hollow step stops.

The roof space is inaccessible, but the feet of straight principals are visible on the first floor, with one supported at the rear by a tall wooden post.