Ashleigh Cottage Ivy Cottage

Ashleigh Cottage and Ivy Cottage are two cottages dating from the late 17th century. Ivy Cottage has been modernised with a rear service extension built around 1980. The cottages are constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with a stone rubble stack topped with 19th-century brick and a thatched roof. They are designed as a pair of contemporary two-room plan cottages facing south, each mirroring the other on either side of a party wall that contains an axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces.

Ashleigh Cottage retains much of its original layout, featuring a large inner heated room and a small unheated outer room, which serves as a dairy or pantry, with a central doorway leading into the main room. The rear outshot may be an original feature. In contrast, Ivy Cottage has had its two rooms combined into one, with the original front doorway blocked and replaced by a new entrance around the corner, leading into a modern 20th-century rear block that has replaced the outshot. Both cottages are two storeys high.

The exterior displays an overall five-window front with 19th and 20th-century casements, some of which are oak-framed. Ashleigh Cottage has a nearly symmetrical two-window section around the central doorway, which now features a 20th-century panelled door behind a contemporary gabled porch. Ivy Cottage has a three-window front, with the central ground window blocking the original front doorway. The roof is half-hipped on the right side and gable-ended on the left.

Inside Ashleigh Cottage, no carpentry details are exposed, and the fireplace is blocked by a 20th-century grate. However, there are some early, possibly original, joinery details, including a couple of bead-moulded doorframes with old plank doors. In Ivy Cottage, the carpentry details are exposed, featuring a stone rubble fireplace with a soffit-chamfered and run-out-stopped oak lintel, which contains an oven that was relined in the 19th century. The main crossbeam is also soffit-chamfered with straight-cut stops. The roof structure throughout consists of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.