Ivy House

Ivy House is a house that dates from the early 17th century and 18th century, with partial remodelling and an addition from the mid-19th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick nogging and is partly rebuilt in dressed red and yellow Grinshill sandstone, topped with a slate roof. The building has an L-plan layout with three bays oriented approximately east-west, and an addition to the southeast. It stands one storey and attic high, as well as two storeys.

The house has dressed grey sandstone stacks with moulded cornices, including an off-centre ridge stack to the west, an integral lateral stack to the northeast, and an integral gable end stack to the southeast. There is a gabled semi-dormer on the northeast side with a two-light wooden casement. The north front, which is at right angles to the road, features central two-light wooden casements on both the first and ground floors, and a half-glazed door that is off-centre to the left, accompanied by a 19th-century gabled timber porch. A one-storey 20th-century flat-roofed addition projects to the right.

On the east front, there are two sets of windows with a one-to-two-light configuration, featuring wooden casements with raised surrounds and returned hoodmoulds. The left side has a moulded eaves cornice, while the right side has a gable. Inside, the central ground-floor room has chamfered beams and joists with ogee stops, along with a 17th-century inglenook fireplace that has a moulded lintel. There is also a small early 18th-century fireplace with a shaped surround and triple keystone, which incorporates some reused carving and panelling believed to have come from Hardwick Grange, a former nearby estate that has since been demolished. The corridor and ground-floor room to the east feature early 18th-century plaster cornices with egg and dart and acanthus decoration, and there are six-panelled doors throughout.