Ivy House Farm House

Ivy House Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with extensions made in the mid 17th century, further raised and extended around 1810, and altered in the late 19th century and 20th century. It features a timber frame with some red brick that is plastered with incisions to resemble stucco, topped by a hipped tiled roof. Originally, the house consisted of two cells with a cross passage, and it has had a parlour and lobby entrance bays added to the left, along with a dairy bay added to the right. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a four-window front with 20th-century two-light casements. Early entrances have been blocked, and there are coved eaves. The house includes three two-light leaded pane gabled dormers and axial ridge stacks between the hall and parlour, as well as at the original right end, which has a rebuilt cap. The right end wall is rendered in early 19th-century red brick. At the rear, behind the cross passage, is an early 19th-century two-storey narrow gabled stair turret. There are later 19th-century low red brick additions at the rear of the service end, featuring segmental-headed openings, hipped pantiled roofs, and a one-storey washroom with flint walling and a stack. Inside, the hall has jowled storey posts supporting a bar stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, with stop-chamfered joists and a fireplace bressumer. Original doorway and window openings are exposed, and the parlour has a raised stop-chamfered axial binding beam. The first floor features arched braces in the walling and reverse curved bracing in the parlour end wall.