Marygold Farmhouse

Marygold Farmhouse is a house dating to around 1870, with later additions and alterations. It is an asymmetrical, two-story, three-bay gabled farmhouse, accompanied by a lower, M-gabled wing at the rear. A flat-roofed porch is located at the front, with a gabled porch to the rear, and a flat-roofed, single-story addition extends to the west.

The front, or south, elevation features a corniced, flat-roofed porch centred on the ground floor, with a timber panelled door and a plate glass fanlight. A single window is recessed at the first floor level and there is a window at both floors in the bay to the outer right, with a bracketed cornice at ground level. A full-height gabled wing projects to the left, featuring single windows centered on both floors, topped by a sandstone finial. A flat-roofed, single-story addition is recessed to the outer left.

The west side elevation presents a two-bay wing to the right, where a flat-roofed addition obscures the ground floor bay on the extreme right. A single window is aligned at the first floor, and others are present at both floors to the left, the ground floor window again featuring a bracketed cornice. A lower wing is recessed to the outer left, with a bipartite window at ground level, offset to the right of centre, and a gabled window projecting through the eaves above.

The rear, or north, elevation displays the M-gabled projection with a gabled porch offset to the right of centre. Single windows are placed at ground level in the flanking bays, and a single window is present at the first floor in the bay to the right. Blind arrowslit openings are centred within the gableheads. Blind elevations are recessed at the outer left and right.

The east side elevation shows a gabled wing to the left, with single windows centered at both floors and a blind arrowslit opening in the gablehead. A tapering sandstone finial is also present. A lower wing is recessed to the right, with a bipartite window at ground level in the bay to the left, a single window to the right, and gabled windows breaking the eaves above; blind arrowslit openings are found in the gableheads.

Most windows are timber sash and case designs with 12 panes, though modern glazing is used in the later addition. The roof is grey slate, with stone-coped skews and bracketed skewputts. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present. The house has various sandstone, rendered, and brick-built ridge stacks, topped with circular cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1998.

A single-story ancillary structure at the rear is constructed of harl-pointed sandstone rubble with droved red sandstone dressings. The courtyard elevation features boarded timber doors in two bays to the left of centre, and a two-leaf sliding timber garage door to the right. A lean-to timber addition extends to the outer left. This structure also has a grey slate roof with stone-coped skews and a brick-built ridge stack with circular cans. Its interior was also not inspected in 1998.

Boundary walls with round-arched coping enclose the site, partially including a setted courtyard. Corniced and stop-chamfered square-plan sandstone gatepiers with pyramidal caps flank the main entrance, incorporating two-leaf timber vehicular gates. Similar coursed sandstone gatepiers with square caps flank the courtyard entrance, with a setted courtyard within.