Ivy Lodge At Ngr So 990O26 And Attached Farmbuildings And Wall

Ivy Lodge, with its attached farmbuildings and wall, is an early to mid-18th century house, offices, and barn designed as a landscape feature. The construction incorporates coursed limestone rubble, with brick used for the first floor of the granary and cartshed range, and stone slate roofs. There are stone stacks to the left side and rear of the main house, a ridge stack in the centre, and a brick stack on the gable end of the barn.

The principal facade presents a symmetrical composition in a Gothic style, featuring seven bays with a two-story central bay forming the front of the house, and gabled single-bay pavilions to the left and right. A blind screen wall extends to the left, forming part of the gable end of the barn on the right.

The central house has eight windows over two stories. The first floor features round-headed twelve-pane sash windows in flat surrounds with keystones and stone sills, flanked by two blind oculi. The ground floor has a half-glazed door recessed behind a pointed, moulded stone surround, flanked by two small lancet windows with glazing bars. A single-flight stone staircase leads to the front door, with a basket-arched opening and flat stone surround below. A further recessed door to the basement is accessed from this area. The wing to the right has two pairs of lancet windows with diamond-pattern leaded lights in stone surrounds. The pavilion on the right end has a blind pointed window with Y-tracery, imitation diamond-pattern leading incised in the render, and a hoodmould. An owlhole with a hoodmould is set in the gable, and a lancet window with glazing bars is present in the basement. The wing to the left mirrors the right wing in all details but has blind windows and lacks a basement window. A band course runs over the ground floor, and an embattled parapet with a modillion eaves cornice is present on the central house only. Crow-stepped gables top the structure.

The barn’s right-side elevation includes two gabled porches with pairs of plank doors, each sheltered by stone-slated canopies. A single-story lean-to addition sits between the porches, with boarded infill to the front. A further single-story lean-to extends to the right, supported by a flying buttress. The granary and cartshed range features three pairs of plank doors on the ground floor and three two-light leaded casements on the first floor. The interior of the house, granary and cartshed range were uninspected. Inside the barn, raised cruck trusses, possibly reused, are in evidence, some with saddles, collars, and a double tier of purlins, with a plank ridge.