Description

SK 52 NE BUNNY MAIN STREET
(south side)
13.10.66
7/42 No.17 Ivy Cottage
and adjoining walls

G.V. II*

House and adjoining walls. c.1700 and C19. Designed by and built
for Sir Thomas Parkyns of Bunny Hall. c.1700 house of red brick,
some ashlar. Plain tile roof. 2 red brick ridge stacks. Brick
coped gables with ashlar coped kneelers, single ashlar orb
finials to kneelers and ridge. Raised eaves band, being ashlar
at the corners and extending to the gable walls. First floor
band extending to the left gable wall. Set on a plinth. Lobby
entry plan. 2 storeys plus garret, 4 bays. Doorway with
fielded panel and glazed door and panelled reveal. To the right
is a single ashlar mullion 2 light casement and to the left 2
similar casements with 4 similar casements above. To the right
is a lean-to. The right gable wall having a single similar
casement on the first and garret floors with a dripmould over
that of the garret. The left gable wall has a single similar
casement on each floor, the garret also with dripmould. To the
rear is a lean-to. Attached to the rear left of the house is a
coped brick wall with arched domestic doorway and plank door.
Extending from the right of the lean-to for about 1 metre is a
C19 ashlar coped red brick wall terminating in a small brick pier
with shaped and painted coping, extending from this in front of
the house for about 21 metres is a low ashlar coped red brick
wall topped with iron railings. This terminates in a single
similar pier and is broken by a central gateway with iron gate
and 2 painted piers topped with single orb finials. Interior has
large chamfered beams with ogee stops, also reputed to have good
late C18 fire grates. Sir Thomas Parkyns Bart. (c.1662-1741)
carried out improvements to and rebuilt almost all of Bunny to
his own designs.

Listing NGR: SK5820829539

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547864

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