Listed Building record MDO16134 - Witchampton and Crichel Club, Witchampton

A house, formerly Ivy House, built in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, with later alterations and additions. It appears that the building was two dwellings.

Ivy House (98880655), of two storeys with walls of brick and of timber framework and with a tiled roof, is reputed to date from 1580. Although the building has been extensively altered and much of the exterior is cased in 19-century 'timber framework', it is indeed of late 16th or early 17th-century origin. The range appears originally to have comprised two dwellings set end-to-end. It is now a village club-house. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 108 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(11) Ivy House (98880655), of two storeys with walls of brick and of timber framework and with a tiled roof, is reputed to date from 1580. Although the building has been extensively altered and much of the exterior is cased in 19th-century 'timber framework', it is indeed of late 16th or early 17th-century origin. The range appears originally to have comprised two dwellings set end-to-end, each with a class-I plan. It is now a village club-house.
The S. end wall is of original brickwork and the lower part of the E. wall, enclosed in a modern addition, is of original timber framework. The square-headed W. doorway, sheltered by a two-storeyed porch, has a moulded timber surround. The S. chimney-stack culminates in two diagonally-set flues; the N. chimney-stack is modern. Inside, a large ground-floor room formed by the removal of former partitions has stout chamfered ceiling beams. A room on the first floor has chamfered timber wall-posts and an original moulded plaster entablature; above the fireplace the plasterwork is enriched with a vine-scroll frieze. The stairs have plain oak newel-posts, close strings, and flat balusters of serpentine profile.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1977 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 98880655) Ivy House (NAT)

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209264 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 2 2023 3:55PM