Ballarat Farmhouse

LOPEN CP WATER STREET (South side) ST4214 8/59 Ballarat Farmhouse (previously listed as Ballarat House)

4.2.58

GV II

Detached farmhouse. Early C18. Ham stone coursed rubble, ashlar dressings; plain clay tiled roof, western section over stone slate base courses, between stepped coped gables; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys with attics; 4-bays north elevation. Bay 1 is set back and slightly lower, with a 2-light C20 window above, and to right of bay a 6-fielded-panel door protected by open stone porch with Tuscan columns and pilaster and plain entablature; to left of bay 1 a projecting wing, possibly a dairy, with boarded door and window in north gable, and leaded casement in west side: remaining windows to this elevation chamfer-mullioned, with a 2-light to lower bay 2, plain above, and a 2-light transomed window, deep, at upper level bay 3, matched by a similar window in the west gable. South elevation similar, but the 2 west bays are in ashlar, and has another open porch to the left of the east bay. Attic window in east gable. Interior not seen.

Listing NGR: ST4263014211