Ivy House Farm

Ivy House Farm is a house dating to 1713, with later alterations, located on Spouthouse Lane in Brighouse. The building is a double pile structure under one roof, originally comprising one dwelling at the front, with two further dwellings at the rear. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof.

The south-east front features a three-room plan of three bays. The front elevation initially displays detail from 1713, with an inscription over the doorway. The left two bays contain recessed, chamfered mullioned windows of five lights, with square reveals to both floors. An inserted window of two lights is positioned on the first floor between the windows in the first two bays. A drip course runs over the ground floor windows of these two bays and over the main entry door to the right-hand side of the second bay, which has a doorway with plain composite jambs and an inscribed lintel. The right-hand section of the front displays late 18th century detailing; doorways with monolithic jambs and thin, flat-faced mullioned windows of four lights to each floor. Quoins are present on the left-hand side only, and there’s a coped gable with kneelers and a large stack. Two other stacks are located at the junction of the bays. Originally, the elevation suggests the house was formed of two cells with gable stacks, with an additional room added in the late 18th century to the right-hand end, with a central stack. The left-hand return wall is blind, having a rendered finish. The right-hand return wall includes a single-storey lean-to, an arched attic light (now solid), and two single-light windows to the ground floor. One ground-floor window is sash with 12 panes; the other has a chamfered surround and a hoodmould with a straight return. The rear pile is also rendered. This single window is dated to the 17th century and may indicate an earlier building on the site or the re-use of materials. A long, sloping cat slide roof extends to the rear, forming an L-shape due to a late 18th century extension to the main range. This extension features flat-faced mullioned windows of four lights to each floor and a doorway with monolithic jambs. The main range is set back and has recessed, flat-faced mullioned windows with square reveals of three and four lights, with an inserted 19th-century doorway with monolithic jambs to the ground floor. Above, remnants of a drip course and two flat-faced mullioned windows of three lights remain.

Ivy House Farm was licensed around 1796 for Wesleyan services and was the home of John Sharp. A window was once engraved with the inscription: 'Peace be on this house bestowed: Peace on all that here reside. Let the unknown peace of God With the man of peace abide, - Nov. 4, 1807'.