The only way to prevent both corruption and hallow from spreading around your house is to make a wall of clay or ash (or air) that is at least 4 blocks thick. There are other blocks that may stop the spread, like dungeon bricks or silver/gold bricks, but none of these have been confirmed, so use them at your own risk.
To do this, move away from your house a fair way (left or right) and start building a trench that's 4 blocks thick. Dig it as far down as you'd like (I'd suggest about 30 blocks or so, but any depth is fine) then begin digging a 4 block high tunnel towards your house, passing under, and continuing for as long as you just dug. Then dig upwards with a 4 wide tunnel until you reach the surface.
When your trench is done, fill it in with ash or clay (or at least fill the top of the trench sides in, so that you don't have to jump over the gap). I'd suggest ash because it's so much easier to harvest a large amount of it easily.
The way this works is because hallow and corruption can "jump" 3 blocks to hallow/corrupt any other blocks on the other side. Neither can spread through ash or clay or air though, so it won't be able to reach your house.
What you'll be left with is an "island" of sorts made of regular dirt and stone, surrounded by hallow and corruption. This will prevent harder monsters from spawning at least for a bit away from your house. Keep in mind though that the hallow and corruption will spread completely around you, including through your mining shaft if you built one under your house. It shouldn't spread up your shaft if you built the clay/ash through the shaft (minus the actual shaft of course), but you will have underground corruption/hallow underneath your house at whatever depth you decided to dig your clay wall down to.
With all of that said though, you should be safe from monster spawns if you have all the NPC's even if corrputon/hallow has spread all the way through your house, but harder mobs will start spawning much closer to your house when you stray away from your npcs. This can become a problem if there's corruption close by, as the corruptor's projectiles can convert blocks to corruption blocks. My advice is to build the island, and then plant hallowed seeds on either side of the island so that you don't have to worry about corruptors.
It'll spread for the most part about 3-6 blocks per day depending on your biome and blocks. And to be honest after Hardmode is initiated you don't NEED the crimson really. So go buy the clentaminator and just ... well, get rid of it. If you ever need more just buy red solution from Steampunker during blood moon and make some :) Solves the pesky hardmode spred problem. Quite often a good idea is to make a world that is 100% crimson/corruption and have my home world corruption/crimson free! If you REALLY aren't capable of killing the WoF in a day or so (irl) then a good idea is to make a 3 block wide helevator on either side of corruption/crimson so that it can't spread! Hope this helped :)
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With the Clentaminator present in the game, this is actually quite easy, if a bit time consuming and expensive. Dig hellevators every 120 blocks across the area you want to purify. With the Green Solution equipped, float down the each hellevator twice, first spraying to the left, then to the right. I recently did this in one of my worlds, and it worked perfectly. I'd recommend checking every so often after you're done to make sure you didn't miss anything. This will also turn any underground mushroom biome to jungle, so you may want to go back when you're done and convert it back with Dark Blue Solution.
When I did this, I left large swathes of land from the surface to the underworld converted, and even brought in Crimson from another world so I had all the biomes present. Just make sure that if you do this you put wider shafts (I left six blocks) around the corrupted/crimsoned/hallowed areas so they don't spread.