Lonsdale Farmhouse

KILDALE NZ 61 SW 2/112 Lonsdale Farmhouse

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Farmhouse, Late C18 (c.1780) for Charles Turner, with early C19 addition and later alterations. Coursed squared herringbone-tooled stone; pantile roofs with stone coping and ridges. 2 storeys with attic, 2 bays, with added 1-storey bay set back on right. South elevation: main range: blocked central doorway; 3-light small-pane windows with central side-sliding lights, in openings with projecting sills and raised keystones to lintels; eaves band; shaped kneelers; end stacks, right one rebuilt in brick. Single-storey bay on right has a board door on left and a 12-pane side sliding sash to right, each with a tooled lintel; eaves band; block kneeler; brick stack at right end. Lean-to former privy with board door at left end. Added brick outbuilding on right not of special interest. Rear: main range: two 12-pane side-sliding sashes on each floor with keyed lintels and projecting sills; 4-pane stair window, the lintel inscribed "C Turner Built 17..", eaves band; shaped kneelers. Single-storey bay has 12-pane side-sliding sash and door. Left return: C20 6-pane-attic window with keyed lintel.

Charles Turner, for whom this house was built, 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: NZ6054810816