Ashleigh Cottage Ivy Cottage

SX 69 NE SPREYTON SPREYTON

1/285 Ashleigh Cottage and Ivy Cottage

GV II

2 cottages. Late C17, Ivy Cottage modernised with rear service extension of circa 1980. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stack topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. Plan: pair of contemporary 2-room plan cottages facing south. Each was a mirror plan of the other either side of the party wall which contains an axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. The left cottage, Ashleigh Cottage, preserves the original layout more or less intact comprising a large inner heated room and small unheated outer room (a dairy/pantry) central doorway into the main room. The rear outshot maybe an original feature. In Ivy Cottage the 2 rooms have been knocked into one, the front doorway blocked and replaced by one round the corner and into a new C20 rear block which has replaced the outshot. Both cottages are 2 storeys. Exterior: overall 5-window front of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars (the older ones are oak-framed). The 2-window section to Ashleigh Cottage is nearly symmetrical about the central doorway which now contains a C20 panelled door behind a contemporary gabled porch. Ivy Cottage has a 3-window front, the central ground window here is blocking the original front doorway. The roof is half-hipped to right and gable-ended-to left. Interior: in Ashleigh Cottage no carpentry detail is exposed and the fireplace is blocked by a C20 grate. Nevertheless there is some early, maybe original, joinery detail, a couple of bead-moulded doorframes containing old plank doors. By contrast in Ivy Cottage the carpentry detail is exposed. The stone rubble fireplace has a soffit-chamfered and runout-stopped oak lintel and contains an oven relined in the C19. The main crossbeam is soffit-chamfered with straight-cut stops. Roof throughout of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.

Listing NGR: SX6993296781