The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HILDENBOROUGH LOWER STREET (south side) TQ 54 NE 5/148 Ivy Cottage - II
Small house. Circa mid C19, built for the Leigh estate. Flemish bond brick to the ground floor, the first floor tile-hung with some blue diapering in the tile-hanging; peg-tile roof; brick stacks. Tudor style.
Plan: A roadside house facing east on to Lower Street. Overall T plan, the main block with a crosswing at the left (south) end; entrance on the east front between the crosswing and main block. Probably 2-cell, a rear lateral stack heating the main block.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front, the gable of the crosswing to the left with, alongside it, a 2-storey gabled porch, the first floor jettied. The porch has pierced, cusped bargeboards and the gable is filled with imitation timber framing. The porch was probably originally open-fronted but now has a late C19 or C20 plank outer door. The crosswing gable has piercedcusped bargeboards and a pendant at the apex. Its ground floor window is an original 4-light transomed casement with polygonal iron panes, the 2- light first floor window has been reglazed in the C20. To the right of the porch there is one original 2-light ground floor casement with sexagonal iron panes. The right return has one original ground floor window matching those on the front and a first floor oriel on brackets, reglazed in the C20, with a pentice roof. Matching bargeboards to the right gable end.
Interior: Not inspected but may retain original features.
The Leigh Estate, developed by Samuel Morley, Liberal M.P. and hosiery millionaire, employed both George Devey and George and Peto on the estate houses and cottages.
Listing NGR: TQ5468548150

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.