Ivy Cottage including Facade of Former Banqueting House

Ivy Cottage, which includes the facade of a former banqueting house, is a notable building featuring a two-storey, three-bay facade made of Sutton stone ashlar, which forms the western side of a lean-to rubble cottage. The bays are separated by four fluted columns, with Ionic columns on the lower storey and Composite columns on the upper storey, both supporting entablatures. The facade features central round arches that are now blocked, flanked by smaller round-headed niches for statues. The entablatures are adorned with moulded architraves, and there are moulded plinths, impost bands, and sill bands that cap the column bases. The decorative elements are particularly elaborate, including egg and dart motifs on the ovolo mouldings of the architraves, impost bands, and central arches, often accented with beading below. The cornices are decorated with leaf patterns and dentils. The keystones of the arches in the lower storey are fluted with Ionic volutes, while the upper storey features scalloped keystones. The keystones extend down the soffits of the niches to the impost level as raised decorative bands. The female statues in the niches are set on square bases and are made of pre-cast stone.

At the rear, there is a two-storey cottage constructed of rubble stone with quoins, topped by a single-pitch slate roof that has two brick stacks and a central skylight. The northern side of the cottage has a symmetrical arrangement of openings, including a central panelled door with an overlight beneath a segmental brick head with stone jambs. This door is flanked by 6-over-6-pane hornless sash windows in red brick surrounds. Above, there are 3-over-3-pane sashes in similar surrounds. There is a second doorway at the eastern end, offset to the left, featuring a 20th-century planked door with an overlight and a flat red brick head, along with a small 4-pane window above it. A boundary wall extends east from the southeast corner of the house, creating a small garden. On the southern side, there is a 2-light multipane casement window in a brick surround to the right, and two small irregular windows to the left, one on each storey.

Access to the interior was not available at the time of inspection.