Kiplaw Farmhouse

WHALTON KIPLAW NZ 18 SW 3/149 Kiplaw Farmhouse GV II M House dated 1752 with initials J.I on door lintel; east block second quarter of C19 incorporating earlier fabric. Squared stone front, other walls rubble; east block coursed rubble with cut dressings. C20 grey tile roof with rendered brick stacks; Welsh slate roof on east block and porch.

Original house 2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Chamfered plinth. Late C19 pent wooden porch,with half-glazed door and margined casements on returns, encloses doorway with chamfered surround and dated lintel. Renewed 8-pane sash windows in old openings. Gables with raised reversed-stepped coping on moulded kneelers; rebuilt end stacks. Left return shows boarded attic window. East block, to right, 2 storeys, 3 bays, symmetrical. Central stable door flanked by 16-pane sash windows with 12-pane shortened sashes above; all openings in alternating-block surrounds, the windows with slightly-projecting sills. Coped right gable with moulded kneeler; stepped-and-banded end stack. Rear elevation of original house has contemporary outshut with boarded door under timber lintel flanked by small casement windows; rear elevation of east block shows two 12- pane sashes with 9-pane sashes above.

Interior: Contemporary dog-leg open-string stair with urn-on-vase balusters; moulded and wreathed handrail. Large internal stack in east block probably survives from an earlier house.

Listing NGR: NZ1190681181