ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: "Willowmeade" is a modest colonial homestead approximately fifteen kilometres south of Balclutha. The main section of the house, which is one-and-a-half storeys high, has an L-shaped plan and is surrounded by single storey lean-to structures on all but the east side. The exterior walls of the house are constructed of wattle-and-daub sandwiched between timber linings and are up to fifty-six centimetres thick. The main roof forms are clad in sheets of pan iron. These have straight ribs and are nailed on to battens which rest directly on the rafters now that the original bark purlins have disintegrated. The lean-to portions of the house have corrugated iron roofs. Rusticated weatherboard scored to imitate masonry construction line the exterior walls of the front of the house, which faces north, and the east wall of the cross gable. Elsewhere the house is clad in lapped weatherboards. Two half dog-house dormer windows and a window set into the apex of the cross gable light the upper floor which contains a stair landing with built-in cupboards and two bedrooms. These windows are set with leaded casements but elsewhere in the building plain sash windows light the rooms. Another decorative element within the facade is the front door which is inset with three pointed arched windows beneath a shallow fanlight. This door opens into a small entrance hall from which a steeply angled staircase rises in a quarter-turn curve. A decorative hall arch separates the entrance hall from a transverse passage which provides access to the living room and master bedroom and also communicates with a second passage between the bathroom and laundry. The door to the sun porch on the west side of the building opens off the master bedroom and on the opposite side of the house a modern concertina door separates the kitchen from the living room. The latter features a large bay window and a bracketed picture rail. MODIFICATIONS: Concertina door between the kitchen and living room fitted and two aluminium windows in south wall installed. West verandah enclosed to form additional bedroom and wall removed on first floor to form one large bedroom from two smaller ones. The north-facing verandah across the front of the house also appears to have been altered.