East Green Beck Farmhouse And Attached Outbuildings

KILDALE NZ 60 NW 6/114 East Green Beck Farmhouse and attached outbuildings

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Farmhouse and attached outbuilding. Dated 1782 for Charles Turner, incorporating remains of C17 house;later alterations. House of coursed squared stone, outbuildings of rubble stone and some white brick in English garden wall bond; pantile roofs with stone coping and ridges. 2 storeys. Roadside elevation: house of 2+2 bays the 2 right bays being the original C18 house and having keyed lintels to openings, a door on right now with a 12-pane side-sliding sash; similar sash to 1st floor, left; otherwise C20 windows; stair window has lintel inscribed "S?T CT 1782"; eaves band; shaped kneelers; end stacks, left one rebuilt in brick. The 2 left bays may be part of an earlier house having large untooled stone blocks to ground floor; 1st floor of brick with stone quoins; wide doorway with C20 boarded door on right; a 12-pane side-sliding sash on each floor of left bay; C20 6-pane casement to 1st floor right; eaves band; shaped kneeler and end stack on left. Outbuilding on left with block kneeler, coping removed. Outbuilding on right has blocked door with small light, eaves band, and block kneelers. Rear two C18 bays of house have C20 small-pane tripartite windows in openings with keyed lintels and projecting sills; set low down on left is a reused stone dated "April : 4 :1643"; eaves band. Bays on right, set back; have a wide doorway (in line with that at front) and a small window. At right end, outbuilding range returns at right angles. At left end outbuilding has stable door, eaves band, and lean-to privy with board door on left.

Interior: house has moulded joists and floorboards; old panelled doors; a large fireplace with chamfered, triangular-stopped wood bressumer and added cornice (at left end of main house).

Charles Turner, for whom this house was rebuilt, was an agricultural improver who built, or rebuilt, a number of farmhouses on the Kildale Estate.

I.E. Ridley, The changing face of Kildale (1986).

Listing NGR: NZ6199609793