Ivy House Farmhouse

Ivy House Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century, with 19th-century casements. It is constructed of red brick featuring irregular vitreous headers, all laid in English bond, and has a rubble stone plinth with chamfered coping, flush dressed stone quoins, and gable copings. The roof is made of Swithland slate and includes two rebuilt brick chimneys with pairs of square shafts connected by offset tops. The building is double pile, with two storeys, an attic, and a cellar, and has two gabled bays on the front.

The windows are horizontal sliding sashes with wooden glazing bars, topped with high segmental header arches over brick tympana. The ground and first floors have three-light windows, while the attics feature two-light windows in the gables and above the central staircase. There is a 20th-century single light window inserted on the ground floor to the right, and two cellar windows with chamfered stone surrounds on the left bay. The return walls have single light windows, some of which are blocked, located near the front corners. To the right, there is a two-storey extension with a later outshot at the front and a 20th-century porch at the rear.

The south front of the house has two bays of three-light barred wooden casements with segmental heads, a large horizontal two-light sash on the first floor to the right, and a central flush-panelled door with a small single light above. Inside, the large rooms on the south side feature ovolo-moulded spine beams, with one room also having an ovolo-moulded fireplace lintel. The smaller rooms on the north side have simpler beams and flank the central staircase, which retains its original newel posts and some splat balusters leading to the attic. Heavy stud partitions separate the north and south rooms. The original roof includes trenched double purlins, high collars, and some wind-braces.