Ivy Bank Farmhouse

Ivy Bank Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse with an early 19th-century extension to the rear. It is constructed of Flemish bond brown brick, with a Welsh slate roof and two ridge brick chimneys. The building follows a double-pile plan and is two storeys high (and has a blind attic), with a symmetrical three-bay front. A plain band runs along the first floor, and a stepped band is present at the second floor. The windows are cross windows set within segmental brick heads. A central moulded wooden doorcase shelters a four-panelled door and a plain fanlight. The west front has similar windows in the original section, and a four-light wooden casement to the former cheese store in the attic. A four-bay extension to the left features small-pane cast-iron casements with intersecting tracery in the upper parts, with the windows hinged in the centre. A board door is set behind a lean-to hood. The interior is reported to be largely unchanged from earlier descriptions. It features old bevelled beams, some cased and some square, two-panelled and ledged, boarded doors, and H-hinges and strap hinges, some attached to lugs. A north-east ground floor room has cupboards on either side of the mantel, with fielded panel doors; one is a beehive cupboard with an arch and shaped shelves. An adjoining room to the south contains very fine, plain four-tier oak cupboards with fielded panel doors, some incorporating a pigeon hole arrangement and small H-hinges.