Church View Ivy Cottage

NZ 1406-1506 KIRBY HILL VILLAGE GREEN (south side)

18/57 Ivy Cottage and Church View (the latter formerly listed as Cottage dated 1708 to the west of Rose 4.2.69 Cottage)

GV II

2 cottages. C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Rubble, partly coursed, stone slate roofs. 2 storeys, 1:1:1: first-floor windows with rear wing to right. Ivy Cottage (to left): part-glazed door to right, and on each floor a C20 casement window, the first-floor stonework apparently rebuilt and coursed; shaped kneeler and ashlar coping to right. In the centre, a segmental-arched carriageway with ashlar voussoirs and quoined jamb to left, with C20 casement window on first floor above. Church View (to right), slightly projecting: quoins, on ground floor to left a part-glazed door in quoined surround, and inscription on lintel 1708; C20 square bay window to right, and first-floor C20 casement window; shaped kneeler, ashlar coping and end stack to right. The roof of the left part at least was formerly steeper and higher, as can be seen from the water-table on the west gable of Rose Cottage (qv). Rear: quoined doorways to the rear of Ivy Cottage and on the right return of the rear wing of Church View. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ1401806512