Building record 1010800000 - IVY LODGE FARMHOUSE, 46 WESTBROOK END

Grade II. House. C15-C16, altered C17. Timber frame with brick infill and rubble stone plinth. Centre bay has flanking cruck trusses. Half-hipped thatch roof. Chimney of C17 brick, repointed, between left-hand bays. 1½ storeys, 3 bays. Barred wooden casements, 3-light to ground floor, right-hand bays, remainder 2-light, upper windows in thatch. Flush panelled door between right-hand bays in plain wooden frame with segmental head. Extended to rear C20. Interior has fireplace with moulded stone jambs and wooden lintel. RCHM II p 218 MON 31 (B1).
2 cruck trusses with single curve blades held by a saddle or yoke carrying only a ridge-piece. Source: R.W. Evans; P. Woodfield (B2).
Dendro-dating of the cruck frame gives a felling date of 1454 (B3).
Building survey and dendro-dating carried out in October 1990 suggest the building was constructed as a three-bay hall house using timber with a felling date in winter 1454-5. A chamber occupied bay 1 with an open hall and hearth in bays 2 and 3. The two internal cruck trusses remain, both with saddle apexes (type 'C'). Floors were inserted in the hall and chamber probably in the 16th century, when the fireplace was also inserted. Judging from the size of the bricks in the southern half of the main stack, bay 3 was probably floored last. See report for detail (B4).