Ireland Farm House
Place Description
The historic place is the 1.5-storey wood Ireland Farm House, built in 1919 and located at 1858 Highland Drive in Kelowna's Glenmore neighbourhood. The address was listed in 1963 as 2048 Glenmore Drive, and in 1967 as 1120 Glenmore Drive
Heritage Value
The historic place is valued for its detail-rich, Arts-and-Crafts-inspired architecture, and also valued for its long-term association with two generations of a family that was active in farming activities since the early 1900s in the Glenmore neighbourhood.
The farmhouse at the northwest corner of Glenmore Drive and Highland Drive was built in 1919 by Andrew Ireland, a farmer and carpenter who appears in directories through the 1930s. He seems to have retired to the Coast in the 1940s, but his wife was still living at the age of 93 in 1983. During the 1930s the farm supplied goat's milk to the nearby 'Preventorium', a treatment centre for children with tuberculosis and malnutrition, located at the foot of Knox Mountain.
By the 1940s and through to the mid-1960s, this was the home of Andrew Irelands son, Wilfred J. Ireland (1911-1968), and his wife, Patricia M. Wilfred was listed in the earlier directories as a farmer, but by 1948 he had gone into surveying. The Irelands seem to have sold this house in 1967 to Lloyd Vernon and Elizabeth Margaret Defoe, and to have moved to a nearby address on Glenmore Drive.
Character Defining Elements
- Large, gently sloping property with mature landscaping throughout and large private lawn
- Residential form, scale and massing, expressed by the 1.5-storey height and rectangular plan
- Gable roof, with the gable parallel to the main elevation, with wood eaves brackets
- Shed dormer facing the front
- Vertical board-and-batten siding
- Random-stone chimney
- 4-over-1 double-hung wood sash windows and plain wood trim on the second floor, and 6-over-1 wood-sash windows with wood trim on the ground floor
