High Knitsley Farmhouse

HEALEYFIELD HIGH KNITSLEY NZ 14 NW 5/55 High Knitsley Farmhouse (formerly listed as High 26.9.85 Knitsley Farmhouse and outbuilding adjoining)

GV II

Farmhouse. Early-mid C18 with later C18 right bay. Roughly-coursed squared sandstone, the right bay with irregular courses of thin sandstone; ashlar dressings and quoins; stone-flagged roof with brick and stone chimneys. 2 low storeys, 6 irregular bays. 3-bay house at right has C20 door in tooled plain stone surround in second bay; 4-pane sash above with flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill; similar treatment to wide sashes with vertical glazing bars in first wide bay; late C19 sashes in right bay have flat stone lintels and flush sills. 3-bay farm building at left has central boarded door in surround of long-and-short blocks, and flat stone lintel; similar blocked doors in outer bays have inserted windows with opening top lights; wide 3-light window over door has thin wood lintel. Corniced brick chimney at left of house; square stone stack at right. Right return gable shows large throughstones at front of gable, and rough stone surround to small square window at right of gable; eaves raised slightly. Full-height, full-width rear addition under parallel roof.

C20 brick addition at left not of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ1099248778