Dean Howl Farmhouse And Buildings Attached

HEALEYFIELD HEALEYFIELD LANE NZ 04 NE (North side, off)

4/47 Dean Howl Farmhouse and buildings attached

GV II

Farmhouse, hind's cottage, dairy and farmbuilding. Circa 1700 with mid C18 alterations, and early C19 additions. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof to main house, Welsh slate roof to extensions; renewed brick chimneys.

Main house 2 storeys, 3 bays; hind's cottage and byre at right 2 storeys, 2 bays; right byre addition 2 lower storeys, 3 bays; left dairy set back 2 storeys, 2 bays. 10 bays in all.

Quoined 3-bay house has central many-panelled door and 4-pane overlight under flat stone lintel; similar lintels and flat projecting stone sills to flanking 16-pane sashes. Similar sashes above, and 12-pane central sash, all with stone sills; wide wood lintel at left, concrete lintels centre and right. Flat stone lintels to 2 boarded doors in hind's cottage and byre, and one in dairy. Varied windows: sash with glazing bars in cottage, late C19 sash on first floor of dairy, hit-and-miss and glazed byre and dairy windows. House has chimney on external stack at left end, and on ridge at right of 3-bay part.

Interior: most doors in house have 6 or 3 raised-and-fielded panels, and L- hinges. High, panelled salt-cupboard door with butterfly hinges in right room; left room has narrow door in centre of rear wall,probably former stair-ladder door; dogleg stair with flushed balustrade under ramped grip handrail; narrow panelled passage door at left of landing, and high, now inaccessible row of pegs at right of landing, suggesting stair is an insertion. Plain square central longitudinal beam in ground floor, supporting ceiling with moulded stucco cornice in left room and rough floor joist in right room.

Listing NGR: NZ0690948747