Listed Building: BEECH COTTAGE AND IVY COTTAGE (284313)

TL 97 SE STANTON THE STREET (WEST SIDE) 3/50 Beech Cottage Ivy Cottage GV II House. C15: originally open hall, divided into 2 in early C19. One-and-a- half storeys. Timber-framed and plastered in panels with comb pattern. Thatched roof. Internal chimney-stack with plain red brick shaft. 3 small- paned sash windows in flush frames to ground storey, 4 gabled dormers with plaintiled roofs and 3-light single bar casements. 2 half-glazed doors with moulded surrounds: a small gabled porch to Beech Cottage, and an early C19 2- storey extension with shallow-pitched pantiled roof at the south end. The house contains the remains of a 2-bay open hall, with smoke-blackened crown- post roof: a short crown-post, braced 4 ways at the head. The entrance door to Ivy Cottage (on north) leads into the original cross-entry, which has an inserted chimney-stack backing up against it. The 2 doorways in the service end partition have plain 4-centred arched heads; the 2 service rooms were made into one and extended in the C17, with a chimney stack added on the north gable wall. Listing NGR: TL9668673167