Warren Farmhouse

KILDALE LITTLE KILDALE ROAD NZ 60 NW East end (off) ) 6/128 Warren Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. Dated 1780 for Charles Turner, altered C19 and 1989. "Rubblestone brought to course; pantile roof with stone coping and ridge; stone stacks. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays. Openings have lintels with raised keystones, the windows with projecting sills. Plinth and eaves band, shaped kneelers. Garden elevation: C20 board door on right side of left bay, the keystone dated and initialled. Wide windows with tripartite sashes, 12-pane flanked by 4-pane on ground floor; shorter, with 9-pane flanked by 3-pane, above. Stacks at ends and to ridge between left-hand bays. Added side-outshut on left has board door below plain stone lintel. Rear: opposing doorway in gabled porch with C20 six-panel door; a small window to its right on 1st floor and a stair window with 9-pane sash between left-hand bays; otherwise small-pane side-sliding sashes. Left return: window to outshut; attic doorway, now window, in gable. Right return: a sash of 12 panes to ground floor, 9 panes to 1st floor and attic, all with herringbone-tooled lintels.

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

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

Listing NGR: NZ6236609076