Church House Farmhouse And Church House Cottage

KILDALE STATION ROAD NZ 60 NW North side (off) 6/143 Church House Farmhouse and Church House Cottage II

Farmhouse and cottage. Late C18 (c.1780) rebuilding of earlier house; C20 alterations. Coursed squared herringbone-tooled stone; C20 interlocking tile roof. Garden elevation: 2 storeys, 2:3:2 bays, central block taller and breaking forward. Original openings on ground floor and on 1st floor of central block have lintels with raised keystones; projecting sills to windows. Central block: blind windows to centre bay; wider 3-light 9-pane windows with central side-sliding lights to outer bays. 2 right-hand bays: inserted door on left; 6-pane sash to right; two late C20 windows over. 2 left-hand bays (Church House Cottage): C20 porch on right masks original doorway; C20 windows. Whole range has shaped kneelers and stacks to gables, left-hand stack rebuilt in brick, right-hand stack raised in brick. Rear: central block has doorway on right and left bay; 2 windows on each floor and stair window all with raised keystones to lintels; 9-pane stair window, others C20. Right-hand block is of C20 brick. Interior of farmhouse: in right room a large open fireplace with timber bressumer and moulded cornice (similar to that at East Green Beck Farmhouse (q.v.)); old 4-pane doors; dog-leg closed-string stair with stick balusters, square newels and moulded handrail, ramped at top.

Listing NGR: NZ6035109543