Bleach Mill Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding

NZ 50 NE 5/126

KILDALE Bleach Mill Farmhouse and attached outbuilding

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Farmhouse, now house, and attached outbuilding (formerly house) part now incorporated in house. Dated "CT 1778"; attached outbuilding C17 in origins; later alterations. For Charles Turner. Coursed squared stone the C18 work herringbone-tooled; pantile roofs; with some kneelers, copings and ridges; brick stacks. Main range 2 storeys, 2 bays, with side porch on right projecting in front of the lower single-storey former house/outbuilding range which has the left-hand part incorporated into the house. Main range: porch has blocked door; inserted central door in C20 gabled wood porch flanked on each floor by 2-light windows with C19 4-pane sashes; original openings have lintels with raised keystones; that over original door dated, some of the lintels very long, and the windows with projecting sills. Eaves band. Shaped kneelers. Rebuilt brick end stacks. Range set back on right is of 2 builds, marked by punch-dressed quoins; herringbone-tooled quoins at right end. The left-hand section is the earliest part and has inserted door and window in mid-C20 porch; taking-in hatch, now window; wide board stable door; slit vent with initials "TB" on its right. Right-hand section, of different stonework, has door with reused chamfered lintel. Shaped kneeler. Rear: main range: two windows with keyed lintels and inserted window between to ground floor; on 1st floor long keyed lintel over two small windows (to left of centre). Eaves band. Lower range on left has, from left, a stable door; opening for gearing from former horse-engine; blocked door; and inserted window. Left return (main range): 6-pane sash on 1st floor has keyed lintel. Interior: main range: moulded joists and floor boards in parlour (on left); board and panelled doors with old hinges; winder stair with square newels, stick balusters and moulded handrail. On 1st floor old fireplaces and grates, and dentilled cornice in left-hand room. Right-hand range: the earliest (left-hand) section was formerly a house, and its former right-hand gable wall has a blocked quoined doorway with deep lintel, and a blocked 2-light chamfered mullion window over (lintel removed).

The farmhouse was remodelled by Charles Turner, of Kildale Estate, as part of his scheme of agricultural improvements. The initials on the outbuilding may be those of Thomas Boswell who lived here in the late C18.

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

Listing NGR: NZ5960809290