Description

TL 65 NW STETCHWORTH HIGH STREET
(East Side)

6/153 No. 23
(Ivy House)

GV II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Early C16, C17 stack; modern
extension to rear using old materials. Original building with
substantial timber frame, plastered with deep plinth. Hipped
thatched roof. Red brick and painted weather boarded rear
extensions. Two storeys; three unit plan. Ridge stack and side
stack to south. Main entrance facing west sealed. Four first
floor flush-framed casement windows, four ground floor
sixteen-paned hung sash windows with similar frames. Interior.
Exposed wall frames with five-light diamond mullion windows at
first floor above hall, and evidence in hall of similar
windows. Clamped floors with stop-chamfered joists and main
beams, reduced in hall for inserted (or widened) stack in C17.
C16 stack possibly survives at first floor. Edge-halved and
bridled scarf-joints to wall plates. Some C19 details imported.
RCHM (Cambs notes) 1951.

Listing NGR: TL6409358778

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457847

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)