Ivy Cottage

Ivy Cottage, Maltongate, Thornton Dale, North Yorkshire, YO18 7SD

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Early C18 cottage retaining some evidence of a possible earlier timber framed longhouse. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241253
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: Ivy Cottage
Statutory Address:: Ivy Cottage, Maltongate, Thornton Dale, North Yorkshire, YO18 7SD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241253
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Jul-2017
List Entry Name:: Ivy Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Ivy Cottage, Maltongate, Thornton Dale, North Yorkshire, YO18 7SD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Ivy Cottage, Maltongate, Thornton Dale, North Yorkshire, YO18 7SD

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Thornton-le-Dale
National Park:: NORTH YORK MOORS
National Grid Reference:: SE8338382608

Summary

Early C18 cottage retaining some evidence of a possible earlier timber framed longhouse.

Reasons for Designation

Ivy Cottage is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Historic interest: * Despite late C20 extension and alterations, the cottage retains a good range of period features and fabric providing evidence of its early C18 form with hints of a possible C17 timber framed longhouse predecessor.

Architectural interest: * The simple rough-hewn timber roof structure is particularly notable.

History

Architectural details and the overall form of the original building suggest that it dates to the early C18, possibly incorporating fragments of an earlier timber- framed building, possibly a longhouse. In the 1990s it was extended with a rear lean-to and a rearward projecting wing. It was also refurbished internally, including the removal of the wall to the cross passage and the replacement of the staircase. In 2016 an original style enclosed staircase was reinstated, along with the cross passage wall as a result of Listed Building Consent enforcement action.

Details

Cottage, C18 incorporating fragments of a possible C17 timber framed long house.

MATERIALS Dressed coursed sandstone, timber lintels, pantile roof and brick stack. Modern extensions to the rear are similarly detailed, but with stone lintels.

PLAN Early-C18 cottage, two celled and single pile, with a cross passage to the left gable and the forehouse (principal room) and parlour sharing a central stack. Evidence suggests that the C18 cottage lacked a separate service room.

EXTERIOR Front: plank door to the left. Two windows to both ground and attic floors, evenly spaced, each with a two-light horizontal sliding (Yorkshire) sash, the lights each having six small panes. Central ridge stack. Left gable: prominent, projecting scar line for a lower roofed building (possibly a byre of an earlier longhouse), now replaced by a neighbouring property's garage. Two-light Yorkshire sash with two-pane lights to the rear of this scar line, lighting the attic. Rear: entirely enclosed by the late-C20 extension, but remaining unplastered. Right gable: directly abuts the neighbouring property.

INTERIOR The gable wall, exposed within the cross passage retains timber framing fragments including an edge halved scarf joint. The ceiling throughout the original ground floor has exposed joists and broad floor boards that are considered to be original to the cottage. The staircase, although reinstated in 2016, is modeled on the original, being enclosed by timber boarding, although it has been reversed to fit with the first floor room arrangement. The kitchen range in the forehouse is a late C20 insert, but the large cupboard in the chimney breast to the side is thought to be authentic, complete with C18 strap hinges. The internal doors through the cottage are plank and ledged, with planks generally of different widths and hung on C18-style strap hinges. All the doors appear to have been re-hung and some of the strap hinges appear to be modern reproductions. The roof structure is authentic with only minimal evidence of modern replacement timber, most timber being very waney (largely unsquared). It has double purlins that are tusked and pegged to a pair of principal rafters which are tied with a collar fixed with large handmade iron bolts.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 440234
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.

The listed building is shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.