Ivy House Farmhouse

House. Likely dating from the late 15th or early 16th century, with a floor inserted and extensions added in the early 17th century, and further alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with steeply pitched machine tiled roofs. Originally comprising four bays, it features a two-bay open hall with storeyed end bays and a four-bay stack and parlour addition at a right angle, forming a T-shaped plan. It is now two storeys high.

The parlour range has an entrance in a narrow bay to the left, featuring a partially raised six-panelled door with an early 19th-century lugged architrave, inner reeding, a cornice to a projecting hood, and to the right, three-light metal-framed, glazing bar casements. Boxed eaves are present. The original large axial ridge stack, located in the right bay of the parlour range, features a recessed diamond panel at its base, four conjoined hexagonal shafts with moulded bases, and a rebuilt oversailing cap. The left gable end has 20th-century French windows on the ground floor and a three-light glazing bar casement above, with a projecting gable, a scroll-carved tie beam supported by leaf-carved consoles. At the rear of the parlour, there are two-light casements and traces of herringbone pargetting. On the first floor, a slightly projecting original eight-light ovolo mullioned and transomed window is partially replaced with a 19th-century casement. Behind the stack, a catslide roof covers a lean-to outshut with a door to the rear. The original range to the right projects to the front and has a slightly lower ridge. A catslide roof extends over a lean-to addition to the left return. The gable front features a 20th-century projecting bay window, with a leaded three-light casement on the first floor. The right return has a half-glazed door at the probable upper end of the original hall, and scattered one, two, and three-light glazing bar casements. Boxed eaves are also present, and the roof has a secondary hip at the rear.

Inside, the original bays display close studding with a mid-rail, edge-halved scarf joints in wall plates, stop-chamfered corner posts, straight-arched braces halved over the mid-rail, traces of two service doorways towards the rear, and a door to the solar towards the front. The inserted floor has stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams and joists. An open truss has been entirely removed. The crown post roof retains square posts in closed trusses, arched braces to the collar purlin, smoke-blackened rafters, and a partition to the solar. The parlour addition has close studding with a chamfered mid-rail, face halved scarf joints in the wall plates, a stop ovolo moulded axial binding beam, and a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam towards the left end. An original stair is located behind the stack, featuring an octagonal newel, and early panelled doors are present. On the first floor, stop ovolo moulded cross axial binding beams are visible, alongside a double butt purlin roof with collars to the principals and upper arched windbraces.