Driving into York to the end of the Fulford Road, you cannot fail to notice the rather unusual early 19th century Villa that is now marooned within the Fishergate gyratory. This Grade II listed house, Ivy Cottage, or now 33 Fishergate, stands out due to its distinctive triangular headed windows at ground and first floor level and rendered walls. In recent times the place had been looking rather run down and the Ivy has been taking over.
In the 1990s it was a guesthouse and more recently student lets, but it has been empty for over a year and went on the market early this year. Help appears to be at hand from the purchasers, a small students lets business called Student Cribs based on Bristol. They have put on a new roof and are making some minor internal and external changes to create a high-spec 10 bedroom house (the picture on their WWW site shows it almost completely engulfed by the Ivy).
They have also removed all the Ivy (not a bad thing), and spruced up the exterior with a lick of paint and a bit of TLC. Let face it, although it’s a lovely period property, its location is a problem for it to be a family house, but I think Student Cribs have potentially made a very good investment here and I think this is a good way to keep it lived in and used.
I hope to do some more research on the house and its owners and Ivy Cottage will be the first FFH House Profile, which should be added sometime in September.
I hope to do some more research on the house and its owners and Ivy Cottage will be the first FFH House Profile, which should be added sometime in September.