Ivy Cottage and Adjoining Walls

IVY COTTAGE AND ADJOINING WALLS, 17, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1277626
Date first listed:
13-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:
Ivy Cottage and Adjoining Walls
Statutory Address:
IVY COTTAGE AND ADJOINING WALLS, 17, MAIN STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1277626
Date first listed:
13-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:
Ivy Cottage and Adjoining Walls
Statutory Address 1:
IVY COTTAGE AND ADJOINING WALLS, 17, MAIN STREET

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
IVY COTTAGE AND ADJOINING WALLS, 17, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Nottinghamshire
District:
Rushcliffe (District Authority)
Parish:
Bunny
National Grid Reference:
SK 58208 29539

Details

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

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Legacy System number:
430452
Legacy System:
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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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