Ivy Farmhouse

Ivy Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid to late 16th century, with extensions added in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. The house was largely reroofed in the 19th century, with some rebuilding and alterations in the 20th century. The structure is timber frame, with plaster panels to the front, and features a black glazed pantiled roof with red pantiles to the rear.

Originally a three-bay, fully storeyed core with a gable end facing the road, a single bay was added at right angles to the front in the 17th century. This was later raised and reroofed to form a two-bay frontage, with a four-bay service wing added to the rear right and a two-bay parlour added to the left. The early core to the rear has a single storey and attic. The early 19th-century parlour on the front left has a slightly higher roof.

The centre of the front has a recessed six-panelled door with a three-light fanlight, an architrave with a cornice, a ground-floor transomed three-light leaded casement, and first-floor two- and three-light leaded casements. Boxed eaves are present. A left-end external stack has offsets. The remodelled early bays to the right feature three-light leaded casements, with a transomed ground floor, and a right-end internal 19th-century stack.

The right return has an 18th-century service wing that projects slightly with a hip roof towards the front from a slightly taller ridge. A forward bay has a half-glazed door in a 20th-century open porch, two- and three-light glazing bar casements with hoodboards, a door into a dairy towards the rear, first-floor three six-pane architraved sashes, and a three-light glazing bar casement. A ridge stack sits between the kitchen and dairy, and a brick rear gable end is present.

To the rear, the 19th-century parlour bays have a six-panelled cross entry door and leaded three-light casements. The early core extends to the rear centre and has glazing bar casements, a three-light dormer. A rebuilt ridge stack is located to the rear of the centre on a lower ridge. Two doors are situated in the inner return of the service wing.

Inside, the early core has stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams, large scantling studding, a three-light diamond mullioned window opening, arched braces in the walling, and pegs for queen posts on the tie beam. The rear bay and stack have been rebuilt. The 17th-century bay has a frame concealed, and jowled posts to originally lower eaves. The 19th-century parlour addition includes a staircase with slat balusters, a turned newel post, and a moulded handrail. The service wing has ogee stop chamfered cross axial binding beams, through tension bracing, and a clasped purlin roof.