240, 242 (The Old Blacksmiths Shop), Mill and Cottage Doncaster Road

The group value of this listing includes Ivy House, a cottage, a mill, and a blacksmith's workshop, located on Doncaster Road, Wakefield. Ivy House dates to approximately 1792, the cottage to the early 18th century, and the mill and blacksmith's workshop were added in the 19th century. Ivy House is constructed of coursed ashlar with a stone slate roof, while the cottage, mill, and blacksmith's workshop have brick and stone slate or pantile roofing, with corrugated asbestos on the blacksmith's.

Ivy House is a rectangular two-storey structure with a western outshut and rear baffle entry, featuring gable end stacks. The original main frontage was four bays, with blocked entrances in bays two and three. Windows in bay one and four are early 20th-century casements with overlights; the stone sills and lintels are characteristic, with projecting bracketed hoods above the ground-floor windows. The rear elevation is three bays with a baffle entrance between bays one and two. A staircase window in bay two has a partly blocked thirty-two-pane fixed light. Other windows are double eight-pane sashes with stone monolith sills and lintels. The interior has not been inspected.

The single-storey cottage has a blind rear elevation and a later 19th-century opening. The front elevation now has two bays; bay one contains a tongue-and-groove door, and bay two has a thirty-pane horizontal sliding sash window with a monolith sill. Both bays have monolith lintels.

The three-storey mill has a remaining engine stack on the north gable, and the rear elevation features a central loading bay facing a now-filled-in canal. The front elevation has an altered fenestration pattern and entrance in bay two. The ground floor has been altered to provide stabling for a blacksmith's workshop. The forge remains in operation, located at the south gable end between two sixteen-pane sashes. The building includes a hay loft over a single-storey section.

Ivy House was originally built as a shop, bank, and boat dues collection point on the now-filled-in Barnsley Canal by the Aire and Calder Navigation Company.