Nos 2 and 3 Ivy Cottages

Nos 2 and 3 Ivy Cottages comprise a house and a holiday house, originally one long pair of houses with No 1. The main house is the left half. The exterior is roughcast with 20th-century plain-tile roofs. There are five chimneys: a small one to the left, a large rendered stack on the ridge to the left of the first bay window, a truncated one on the ridge to the right of the second bay window on No 2, a small one to the left of the two-storey bay on No 1, and another small one at the right end.

The front elevation has a near-symmetrical three-bay arrangement to the left (No 2), featuring canted bay windows flanking a central door with an arched window above. The bay windows have 10-20-10-pane glazing and tile covers extending from the main roof, although the left bay window is wider with a slate roof. The arched window has radiating bars to the head, and the doorway has an open-pedimented surround with pilasters leading to a panelled door with a square head. The three bays to the right (No 1) share a similar design, but the last bay has 20-pane sash windows on both floors instead of a matching canted bay; the door is half-glazed.

Attached to the main house are two wings. The wing to No 2 runs south from the west end, now numbered No 3, and is nearly detached, linked by a wall along Cresswell Street. It is two-storey, with painted stucco, a slate hipped roof, a lean-to on the south end wall, nogged brick eaves (original on the south end, 20th century on the west side), and a two-window range to the garden with 12-pane sashes above and one below. The rear elevation facing the street is stuccoed with a three-window range, all blank except for a 12-pane sash to the first floor centre and a 4-pane window in the former doorway below. A short, high stuccoed wall with a parapet links No 3 and the end of No 2, incorporating a depressed-arched broad doorway between limestone piers, with double doors featuring two pointed long panels and timber studs on cover strips. The other wing runs back towards St Julian's Street from the rear of No 1; it is low and two-storey with a north stack on the ridge to Cob Cottage.

The rear elevation, facing Tor Lane, is in painted stucco. It features a stair light to No 2 with coloured and etched glass in the margins, and, to the extreme left, an original 18-pane stair light to No 1. An iron plaque reading ‘Tor Lane’ is affixed to the rear wall to the extreme right.