Balbie

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan piend-roofed house with single storey extensions. Painted harl with painted stone margins and quoin strips, base course, chamfered surround to doorcase and canopy over door.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Door at centre with windows in flanking bays, regular bays at 1st floor; small single storey pavilion to left with window.

N ELEVATION: centre single storey extension with stair window over, windows in flanking bays at both floors; door and window in single storey extension to right.

E ELEVATION: window to outer right at both floors, recessed extension to right with door to right and window to left.

W ELEVATION: recessed extension to left with door to centre and to right.

Mainly 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, modern plate glass glazing to ground floor N and in extensions. Modern rubberoid tiles with clay ridges, dressed ashlar coped stacks with some cans.

INTERIOR: curving stone staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and timber handrail.

BOUNDARY WALLS: keel-shaped coping to random rubble boundary walls enclosing Balbie Farmhouse with gateway in S perimeter.