Ivy Dear Cottage

Ivy Dear Cottage, Mellis Road, Yaxley, IP23 8DB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1181753
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: Ivy Dear Cottage
Statutory Address:: Ivy Dear Cottage, Mellis Road, Yaxley, IP23 8DB

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/08738/10
Rights:: © Mr A. C. A Seinet. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1181753
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: Ivy Dear Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Ivy Dear Cottage, Mellis Road, Yaxley, IP23 8DB

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Ivy Dear Cottage, Mellis Road, Yaxley, IP23 8DB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Yaxley
National Grid Reference:: TM 11574 74356

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 March 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards

TM 17 SW 3/156

YAXLEY MELLIS ROAD (NORTH SIDE) Ivy Dear Cottage

(Formerly listed as Ivy Cottage)

II

House, latterly three dwellings. Early to mid C17 in 2 builds, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Thatched roof. Three cell plan: parlour and stack bays to right as earlier surviving section, three hall and service bays to left appear to be a subsequent rebuilding. One storey and attic throughout. Central C20 projecting lean-to entrance porch, C20 windows, to far left and on upper storey earlier two-light glazing bar casements, central eyebrow thatched two-light dormer. Two ridge stacks to right and to left of centre, that to left slightly larger. Left or service end roof hipped with catslide over a clay lump lean-to outshut. Right or parlour gable end two-light casements, exposed plates and purlins. To rear two-light casements and to left one storey C20 pantiled outbuildings.

Interior: parlour has close studding, stop chamfered axial binding beam, cranked braces in walling, removed arched braces to cambered tie beams. Hall has an ogee stopped fireplace bressumer, stop chamfered cross axial binding beams, jowled storey posts, arched braces to a tie beam, all reroofed.

Listing NGR: TM1157474356

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Legacy System number:: 279614
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.