Ivy Lodge Vicars of Mirfield have lived here from early 15th C. Up to 1873 and again from 1922 till 1935. This building is 17thC. in origin and was owned by the Armytage family of Kirklees Hall. Rev. Joseph Ismay, vicar of Mirfield, 1740 to 1778, and author of the Mirfield Diaries, rebuilt the property in 1740.