Description

LONG WHATTON MAIN STREET
SK 4723
13/193 No 22 (Ivy House Farm-
house)
7.12.62
GV II

House. Late C17 with C19 casements. Red brick with irregular vitreous headers,
all laid in English bond. Rubble stone plinth with chamfered coping, flush
dressed stone quoins, and gable copings. Swithland slate roof. 2 rebuilt brick
chimneys with pairs of square shafts linked by off-set tops. Double pile. 2
storeys, attic and cellar. 2 gabled bays to front. Horizontal sliding sashes
with wooden glazing bars and high segmental header arches over brick tympana.
Ground and first floors have 3-light windows; 2-light windows to attics in
gables and to central staircase. C20 single light inserted to ground floor
right. 2 cellar windows in chamfered stone surrounds to left bay. Return walls
have single lights, some blocked, near front corners. To right is a 2-storey
extension with later outshot to front and C20 porch to rear. South front of
house has 2-bays of 3-light barred wooden casements with segmental heads, a
large horizontal 2-light sash to first floor right, and a central flush-panelled
door with small single light above. Interior has large rooms on south side with
ovolo-moulded spine beams, one room also with ovolo-moulded fireplace lintel.
Smaller north rooms with simpler beams flank central staircase which retains
original newel posts and some splat balusters on flight to attic. Heavy stud
partitions divide north and south rooms. Original roof with trenched double
purlins, high collars and some wind-braces.

Listing NGR: SK4770623590

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317488

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)