No 1 Ivy Cottages

No 1 Ivy Cottages is a house that forms the right half of a long pair of houses, built with unpainted roughcast walls and 20th-century plain-tile roofs. The building features five chimneys: one small chimney on the extreme left, a larger rendered chimney on the ridge to the left of the first bay window of No 2, a truncated chimney on the ridge to the right of the second bay window of No 2, a small chimney on the ridge to the right of the left bay window on No 1, and another small chimney at the right end.

The house is two storeys high and has seven bays in total. The south front is nearly symmetrical with three bays for No 2 on the left, featuring canted bay windows on either side of a central door that has an arched window above it. The bays have 20th-century glazing with 10-20-10 panes and tiled tops at the eaves level, although the ground floor of the left bay is wider and has slate roofs. The arched window has radiating bars at the head, and the doorway is framed by an open-pedimented surround with pilasters leading to a panelled door with a square head. The central (fourth) bay has a 20-pane sash window on each floor, with the upper window featuring horns.

The three bays to the right, which belong to No 1, are similar to those on the left, but instead of a canted bay window on the right, there is a 20-pane sash window on each floor (which has been renewed since 1977), and the door is half-glazed.

There are two attached wings: the one for No 2, which is nearly detached and has a hipped roof, runs south along Cresswell Street and is now numbered No 3. No 1 has a short wing that runs back towards St Julian's Street, backing onto Tor Lane, with a northern end stack on the ridge adjacent to Cob Cottage. The east side features an attached square tower, presumably for a lavatory, which has a parapet and a cambered-headed sash window. The west side, facing Tor Lane, has a glazed door at the angle and a 4-pane sash window on each floor to the left. The rear of the main range along Tor Lane has an 18-pane stair light in the angle to the rear wing, which may be the only original window remaining.