Loddon Heritage Study N2 Place House and garden
Formerly
Address Kangaroo Flat - Newbridge Road Newbridge
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study N3 Place "Crooked Nook" (not found)
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Address Newbridge
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Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description
History Built c.1864.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study E1 Place "Pine Lea" (abandoned)
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Address Laanecoorie - Eddington Road Eddington
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 566155 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Associated "Mallee shed", mud brick dairy (?), mature trees.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study E2 Place Farm house
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Address Ross Freemantle Road (135) Eddington
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 576158 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Timber farm house and mature trees.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study E3 Place Farm house
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Address Ross Freemantle Road (137) Eddington
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 578159 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Timber farm house, gateway, shed and garden.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Ea1 Place Farm house
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Address Ross Freemantle Road Eastville
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 613152 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Timber farm house, brick farm house, outbuildings, mature trees.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Ea2 Place Farm house
Formerly
Address Gallaghers Road Eastville
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 653159 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Brick farm house with additions at rear of later house. Associated mallee shed.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Ea3 Place Farm house
Formerly
Address Maryborough Road, at Stones Road Eastville
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 663180 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Brick farm house and garden.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study Ea4 Place Railway earthworks
Formerly Proposed railway from Shelbourne to Llanelly Address Blossom Hill Road to Shelbourne station g Eastville
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 673160 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Proceeding from north to south, the earthworks commence at the Blossom Hill road where an embankment runs out of a c. 3 metre deep cut. The embankment is penetrated by a cement faced culvert and there is a mature tree very close to the projected railway that may pre-date the works. This section is surrounded by gum trees, the south end of the cutting opening onto a field without any formation. Beyond is a gravel road with the cattle grid and associated timber structures in situ. There is another open field on the south side of the crossing followed by a further embankment and cut.
Further south again, the bridge over the Bradford Creek has been removed along with a lesser structure further to the south. A farm track uses the low formation here as an access road, the remainder of the earth works between this point and the Shelbourne station yard being understood to be inconsequential.
Condition: Sound, timber structures unsound. Integrity: High at the northern end of the works, low elsewhere.
History The Maldon to Laanecoorie railway was authorised under Act no. 821 ("The Octopus Act") of 12th. December, 1884. The line from Maldon (Laanecoorie Junction) was opened as far as Shelbourne, a distance of 9.89 miles, on 24th. March, 1891. Earthworks, bridges and culverts were constructed for a distance of 1 mile 58 chains beyond this point. The works formed part of the projected line to Llanelly on the Dunolly to Inglewood railway. In his evidence before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways reporting on the proposed line from Shelbourne to Cousens' Corner on the route of the projected railway to Laanecoorie the engineer in chief of the Victorian Railways, Francis Rennick, stated that the line was not completed on account of an error in the construction estimate. It had been proposed to complete the railway as far as the end of the earthworks but the authorization of a station at Shelbourne, 1.75 miles further back, caused the Department to stop plate laying at that point. The Standing Committee was also informed that the expected traffic from the projected Cousens' Corner railway would consist principally of grain, hay and chaff with some live stock, wool, dairy produce and passenger traffic. It resolved on 12th. December, 1895, not to complete the line for the following reasons: - the district was already well served by railway communication, - production in the district would not increase following construction of the line, - extension would add considerably to the loss presently being sustained by the Shelbourne extension, and - any new traffic obtained by the line would be at the expense of other nearby railways already constructed. Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.7. Moving goods and people. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of The earthworks associated with the projected railway between Shelbourne and Significance Cousens' Corner and forming part of the Maldon (Laanecoorie Junction) to Laanecoorie and Llanelly railway are historically important. This importance (Criterion A) is derived from the manner in which they demonstrate the impetus for railway construction during the late Victorian era authorized especially by Acts nos. 682 and 1884 (82 lines), the section beyond Shelbourne having been abandoned prior to completion. It is in this respect a unique reminder (Criterion B) of the Railway Boom years and compares with the later Millewa South railway in the Mallee for which comparatively inconsequential earthworks were also constructed. The survival of the cement faced culvert and cattle grid offer information concerning construction standards of the day whilst the surviving trees on the railway reserve demonstrate the dedication of this corridor for railway purposes since 1884. Recommendations Recommended that the railway corridor between the Bradford Creek crossing and the Blossom Hill road be included in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over the removal of trees in the corridor associated with the proposed railway route. References - Report from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways on the Proposed Railway from Shelbourne to Cousens' Corner, 13th. December, 1895.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1999 Loddon Heritage Study L9 Place "The Delta"
Formerly
Address Bendigo Maryborough Road Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 603192 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An asymmetrical Federation period tuck pointed red brick villa with bull nosed corner verandah terminated by projecting wings having prominent rough cast gable ends with king post motifs. The dominant corrugated iron clad hipped and gabled roof is relieved by tall chimneys in the manner of the day with rough cast upper sections. Timber verandah posts have decorative spandrels and there is a pressed metal sunhood over the north facing main window. Outbuildings include a cement block dairy and red brick garage.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, includes established garden and avenue of mature pines on the west side.
History ‘The Delta’ was built by Edward Stone after he purchased land at Laanecoorie in an auction in Bendigo in 1857. Stone named the property ‘The Delta’ and established a vineyard, orchard and vegetable garden. It is believed that the first crop of wheat in Laanecoorie was grown on this property. Stone, along with Thomas Langdon, was one of the founders of the school opened in Laanecoorie in 1864.
A descendant of the original family lived in the homestead until recently.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.4 Developing primary Context production.
Statement of "The Delta" is located on the Bendigo Maryborough Road at Laanecoorie and was built Significance by a descendant of Edward Stone who acquired the land and developed it as a vineyard, orchard and vegetable garden from 1857, subsequently cropping what may be the first wheat in the district. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its links with the pioneering work of Edward Stone who like others in the region would have supplied produce to the nearby goldfields centres at Maldon, Marong and Bendigo. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a representative Edwardian period villa exhibiting the hallmarks of a house of the period including the corner verandah form with terminating projecting wings. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Cain, Jennifer E., Laanecoorie: Hub of the Universe, n.p. n.d.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study L10 Place Engine beds
Formerly "King Mine"
Address Bridgewater - Maldon Road, south of Mich Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 597264 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A substantial brick engine bed approximately 26 courses high and generally rectangular on plan, now ruinous following the removal of the machinery. There is an associated partially filled depression with brickwork remnants, the site being located on open ground.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Low.
History The Dunolly Mining Division roughly equates with the area of Bet Bet Shire, taking in the towns of Dunolly, Laanecoorie, Llanelly, Moliagul, Goldsborough, Tarnagulla and Bealiba. The remains of this engine bed would therefore fall within this mining division, however the site is not included in David Bannear’s report ‘Historic Mining Sites in the Dunolly Mining Division’ or in other information held by the Department of Minerals and Petroleum.
The mine was known locally as the ‘King Mine’, and in the 1938 drought, water was pumped from its shaft to irrigate local tomato crops.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.3 Exploiting natural resources. 3.3.3 Mining
Statement of The former "King Mine" ruins are situated to the west of the Bridgewater Maldon road Significance south of Laanecoorie and consist primarily of a substantial brick engine mounting. They are historically significant.
They are historically significant (Criterion A) in the locale as rare structures of their type, mining not being successfully carried out over a long period in their vicinity unlike at the nearby centres of Maldon and Bendigo-Eaglehawk. The engine bed has significance also as an unusually large structure of its type. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme. Further research should be undertaken to better understand the importance of this site.
References Lyndsey Wicker, former local resident
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study N4 Place "Crasmere"
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Address Kangaroo Flat - Newbridge Road Newbridge
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 623284 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Timber farm house.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study W1 Place "Barrington Farm"
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Address Kangaroo Flat - Newbridge Road, east of Woodstock on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 664265 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A simple brick farmhouse with hipped roof and bull nosed verandah having an overpainted coursed bluestone wing at the east end also with a hipped corrugated iron clad roof. The double hung windows to the brick section have glazing bars and it is understood there is an associated timber section of the building.
Condition: Medium, evidence of structural movement. Integrity: High.
History Thomas Briggs, born in 1820 at Hatfield Woodhouse, Yorkshire, England, arrived in Tasmania in 1842. In the early 1850s, Briggs shifted his family to Victoria in search of gold. He purchased his first block of 175 acres in Woodstock in 1857 and built a slab hut. In later years, understood to be during the 1860s, he built the present more substantial bluestone and brick home and named the property ‘Barrington’ after Berrington Hall in England where his wife, Mary Ann, had once worked. After his father’s death in 1866, Thomas Briggs junior carried on the farm with his mother. The property was sold in 1893 to Robert Findlayson Gow.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.4 Developing primary Context production.
Statement of "Barrington Farm" is located on the Kangaroo Flat - Newbridge Road, east of Seafield Significance Road at Woodstock on Loddon. It was established by Thomas Briggs in 1857, the earliest surviving buildings being understood to have been erected there in the 1860s. They are historically and aesthetically significant.
They are historically significant (Criterion A) on account of their capacity to demonstrate aspects of early farm life in the locality which supplied produce to the nearby goldfields settlements at Marong and Bendigo/Eaglehawk. They are aesthetically significant (Criterion E) on account of their simple and unpretensious architectural form pre-dating the ornamental excesses of the late Victorian era. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Wallace, Ray, Shades of the Past: A History of Campbells Forest and Yarraberb. Conversation with Andrew Ward and present owner.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study N5 Place Cemetery
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Address Cemetery Road Newbridge
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 624291 Inglewood South 7624-1-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative small country cemetery with steel framed chain wire mesh gates with ornamental scrolls and pre-cast concrete gate posts. The compartments are laid out on a rectangular grid with a central driveway and the memorials are representative. There are pine trees on the east boundary and other trees on the west and north boundaries. The cemetery ground is approximately half vacant. Memorials are typically in black, pink and grey granite, many having been manufactured by Geo. Ferries, Castlemaine.
The public toilets are recent.
History Newbridge Cemetery was reserved in 1861, although the first burial was recorded in 1858. The cemetery measures ten acres and is separated into Church of England, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian and Public denominations. It is fronted on the eastern boundary by forty pines planted in 1946. A barbed wire and weld mesh fence was erected in 1938 to replace the old fence, and a crematorium wall built in 1998. Regular community working bees are conducted to ensure the upkeep of the cemetery.
Thematic 9.7. Disposing of dead bodies. Context
Statement of The Newbridge cemetery is situated on Cemetery Road, Newbridge, and was reserved Significance in 1861 following the first burial of 1858. It is historically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) for the record it holds of the settlers from the district including the Newbridge township. The evidence today is representative of many comparable places in country Victoria. Recommendations Not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme because there is no significant fabric other than the headstones for which conservation controls are warranted.
References Historic Places Section, Cemetery Inventory Newbridge Cemetery Trustee, Lorna Stewart
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 2000 Loddon Heritage Study N6 Place "Avondale"
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Address Cemetery Road Newbridge
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 624289 Inglewood South 7624-1-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Brick farm house
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study S1 Place Shelbourne Railway station ground
Formerly
Address Punton Road (Marong - Woodstock) Shelbourne
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Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The Shelbourne station ground includes the remains of the former passenger platform including the mound and a section of the pre-cast concrete platform wall and coping, standard reinforced concrete double grain silos, a Hawke and Co. weighbridge with recent associated structures, the track formation and a large metal store.
Condition: Silos showing evidence of deterioration. Integrity: Low.
History The railway from Maldon via Laanecoorie Junction was extended as far as Shelbourne with the commencement of services on 24th. March, 1891. The goods shed was built possibly at this time. By 1903, Shelbourne was worked under caretaker conditions and later in the same year under man-in-charge conditions. The List of Stations for 1913 noted that there were no watering facilities at Shelbourne for locomotives. The station was open for goods and passenger traffic and it was equipped with a telephone, 3 ton crane, 10 ton cart weighbridge and a sheep race but no cattle race or carriage dock. In 1917 it was placed again under caretaker conditions and in 1941 the passenger service was withdrawn. It was operated on a no-one in charge basis from 1st. November, 1950 and closed to all traffic following bushfire damage sustained by bridges along the line from 1st. January, 1970.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people Context on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of The railway station at Shelbourne was opened with the line on 24th. March, 1891. The Significance station ground is located on the north side of the Punton Road (Marong - Woodstock) at Shelbourne. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the terminus of the branch line from Castlemaine via Maldon which is now operated partially as a tourist railway, the Shelbourne station ground having significance to the extent that it forms a part of the story of this popular branch railway which survives as a typical nineteenth century branch line. It is important also as a proposed intermediate station on the projected Laanecoorie railway, the absence of a turn table pit demonstrating this status in spite of its operation as a terminal station throughout its life. The surviving passenger platform, associated mounds and concrete silos demonstrate aspects of this significance by facilitating the interpretation of the site and providing an indication of the nature of the traffic sustained. The silo is a local landmark and the most obvious remnant of the defunct line having significance especially on this count. Recommendations It is recommended that the whole of the station ground be included in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Guiney, M., Weekly Notice Extracts 1894-1994 (1996), pp. 307-08. List of Stations for 1913.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2001 Loddon Heritage Study SW2 Place School building (closed) and play ground
Formerly Shelbourne School, Shelbourne West School Address Corner Marong - Woodstock Road and Blo Shelbourne West
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 342161 Shelbourne 7724-3-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A ruinous single classroom overpainted brick school building with porch, timber posted verandah and store (?). There is a stone plinth, segmental windows with cement sills and corrugated galvanised iron clad shallow pitched gable roof, the gutter resting on a continuous projecting brick course.
Inside, the timber lined ceilings have sloping sides, tie rods and ventilators and the solid plaster walls retain an early scheme of decoration with a mid green dado, cream fill and black line, black skirtings and stone architraves. The fireplace with surround and blackboard are in situ.
The school block is situated at a road intersection and surrounded by gum trees and there is a cistern in the yard, the hand pump having been removed.
Condition: Unsound, severe structural movement following a long period of neglect. Integrity: High.
History The school at Shelbourne was opened as a vested common school under the control of the Board of Education on 1st. September, 1868. The residence was destroyed by fire at an early date and for many years the post office was attached to the school. It finally closed on 23rd. August, 1950 and the building was taken over by the Suil conservation Authority in July, 1964. It was also known as Shelbourne West.
Thematic 6. Educating. Context 6.2 Establishing Schools.
Statement of The former Shelbourne School, also known as Shelbourne West, was opened on 1st. Significance September, 1868 and closed on 23rd. August, 1950. It is historically important. This importance (Criterion A) is derived from the capacity of the place to demonstrate the standards of accommodation required by the Common Schools Board in the period 1862-1872 preceding the formation of the Education Department in 1873. As a single room school building, the provision of small porch, classroom with fire place on the side wall and windows opposite were characteristic elements. The simplicity of the design and absence of ornamentation recalls the poverty of the district and/or the lack of interest in providing a more imposing structure. The place also recalls the population of the goldfields hinterland following the various land Selection Acts during the 1860s and the consequent need for schools. Shelbourne compares in these respects with Lockwood, Evansford (1867), Majorca, Cobaw (1871) and others. The role of the place as a post office is of interest. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over interior alterations.
References Education Department of Victoria: "Vision and Realisation", 1973 v.2, p.455.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1999 Loddon Heritage Study SW1 Place Former Flour Mill
Formerly Cardlins brothers' mill
Address Bendigo - Maryborough Road at Marong Shelbourne West
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 343179 Shelbourne 7724-3-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A substantial bi-chrome brick gable roofed flour mill, now bagged, in English bond with a lean to section on the west side. The end walls are simply treated and the side walls are strengthened with pilasters. Several openings have been bricked up and others remain in use. There are tension rods with cast iron plates and wheels exposed on the wall surfaces and the words: "J.C.(?) Douglas's Grain Stores" have been painted on the south end wall (façade). The principal doorways have segmental heads and there are additions at the north end.
Inside, the timber frame presumably post dates the fire. There are mature pepper corns and exotic trees in the surrounding yard.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium.
History Built at the rear of a hotel, this two storey flour mill was completed on 4.8.1877. The architect was Mr Minto, bricklayers Messrs. Jenkins and Valance, and the carpenters were Messrs English and Smith. According to the Bendigo Advertiser of 4.8.1877, it was an "exceedingly ornate and handsome structure", and [it] possesses many points of architectural beauty The Shelbourne West Flour Mill was owned by the McCardlin brothers in 1882-83. It was subsequently burnt out in 1893.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.4.3. Developing agricultural industries.
Statement of The former McCardlin brothers flour mill on the Bendigo- Maryborough road at Significance Shelbourne West was in existence in 1882-83. It is historically important. This importance (Criterion A) is demonstrated by its survival as a small flour mill situated away from the principal centres of the Colony and established at a time prior to the development of a small number of high output mills connected with the rail network. It is important also as the last building demonstrating the existence of a settlement at this intersection, understood to consist formerly of the mill, a hotel and smithy. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlaty Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Jones, L. and P.,"The Flour Mills Of Victoria 1840-1990: An Historical Record", The Flour Millers' Council of Victoria, 1990, p.280.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1999 Loddon Heritage Study S3 Place Farm house
Formerly
Address Marong - Woodstock Road (Neivandt's Ro Shelbourne
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 347222 Shelbourne 7724-3-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Timber and brick house with outbuildings.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study W2 Place School building (closed)
Formerly State School no. 1599
Address Kangaroo Flat - Newbridge Road Woodstock on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 356250 Shelbourne 7724-3-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A standard late Victorian Education department red brick school and former quarters having a steeply pitrched gabled roof suggestive of the Gothic Revival mode which was commonly employed at the time and consisting of the main school room and porch with former quarters on the west side. The roof is corrugated iron clad though previously shingled, the plinth is of bluestone together with dressed window sills and visual emphasis is given to the slightly arched window heads by means of lighter red bricks.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History Woodstock-on-Loddon school opened as Common School No. 810 in May, 1864. The brick school closed in 1875 and was then used by the community as a church.
A new school (Woodstock-on-Loddon State School No. 1599) opened on a new site the day after the Common School closed. A brick school building, 40 feet by 20 feet, with a shingle roof and a three-roomed attached residence was erected by Henry Phippard of Sandhurst. A post and rail fence was built to enclose the school at the same time.
The school closed in 1902. In 1913, it was decided that the school would not be required by the Education Department, and from 1917, the building was used as a community hall.
Thematic 6. Educating. Context 6.2 Establishing Schools.
Statement of The former State School no. 1599 at Woodstock on Loddon is situated on the Kangaroo Significance Flat - Newbridge Road at Woodstock on Loddon and was built in 1875 to a standard design of the Education Department when Henry Barstow was in charge of the architecture branch. The school was closed around the time of the Great War and was used as a public hall from 1917. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the principal centre of Government sponsored education at Woodstock on Loddon from 1875 until c.1917 and subsequently as a meeting place for the community. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a substantially intact example of a standard brick school for sixty children with quarters in common use during the 1870s. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlaty Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Blake, L. J. (ed.) Vision and Realisation: A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria, Volume 2. Education Department of Victoria, Melbourne, 1973, p. 488 Wallace, Ray, Shades of the Past: A History of Campbells Forest and Yarraberb. Raywood, Campbells Forest and Back-to Committee, 1993, pp. 65-6
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study W3 Place "Langwoonar"
Formerly
Address Kangaroo Flat - Newbridge Road Woodstock on Loddon
Property Information
Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 358251 Shelbourne 7724-3-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Timber house
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study W4 Place Former Burke's "Junction Inn"
Formerly
Address Kangaroo Flat - Newbridge Road Woodstock on Loddon
Property Information
Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 362250 Shelbourne 7724-3-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A simple gable roofed red brick building, rectangular on plan and of utilitarian form with a parapet wall to the gable ends.The façade windows have been sheeted over or bricked up at an earlier date and the interior gutted. The faded letters of the hotel name remain at the west end of the building.
Condition: Unsound. Integrity: Low.
History The Kangaroo Flat-Newbridge Road was originally used as the coach route between Tarnagulla and Bendigo. It was on this route that a number of inns were established. Two such inns, both known as the Junction Inn, were built at Woodstock on Loddon and acted as staging posts.
The more recent Junction Inn (this site) is now privately owned and was, until recent years, used as a pottery. First built at the junction of five tracks c1857, it was kept by Michael Burke (President of the Marong Shire in 1884), and was rebuilt on its present site by Burke at a date unknown. It was in operation in 1869. The inn closed in the 1880s.
Renovations and alterations were undertaken in 1911.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11. Feeding people. 3.11.5 Context Retailing foods and beverages.
Statement of The remains of the former Burke's "Junction Inn" are situated on the Kangaroo Flat - Significance Newbridge Road at Woodstock on Loddon. The hotel was in existence by 1869 and had been de-licensed by the 1880s.The remains are historically significant.
They are historically significant (Criterion A) for their capacity to recall past important road routes including the Tarnagulla Bendigo goldfields track and also the means of accommodating travellers at a time when a day's ride was approximately 40 kilometres leading to the establishment of inns at these intervals along the principal communication routes. This importance is enhanced by the early date of the hotel. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Wallace, Ray, Shades of the Past: A History of Campbells Forest and Yarraberb. Raywood, Campbells Forest and Back-to Committee, 1993, p. 27
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study Le1 Place School building (closed) and playground
Formerly Leichardt School no. 1317
Address Leichardt Road Leichardt
Property Information
Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 379352 Leichardt 7724-4-3
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A standard late 1870s timber schoolroom with presumed later windows to the façade and hip roofed rear additions. There is a main corrugated iron clad gable roof with later ventilators and skylights, finials at either end and gable end vents characteristic of the early work of the Education Department. There are highlight windows along one side and a chimney on the other.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, playground equipment in situ along with mature trees.
History Leichardt School operated in a leased building from February, 1874, until May, 1878. A site on Crown Land was gazetted for the school in January, 1875. However, due to a population shift, possibly associated with the opening of the railway to Inglewood in 1876, a new school site was gazetted in that year. The new site was surveyed, and a portable school with attached quarters and furniture provided at a cost of £153 8s 9d. In 1877, the portable school was converted into a residence and a new detached school of timber, accommodating 60 students, was built. The school’s enrolment reached 86 in 1878, and fell to 15 in the 1970s. Today, Leichardt compares closely with the Borung school (1881).
The school is now used as a residence.
Thematic 6. Educating. 6.2 Establishing schools. Context
Statement of The Leichardt school was built in 1877 to a design of the Victorian Public Works Significance Department during Henry Barstow's term as architect for the Education Department. It is situated on the Leichardt Road, Leichardt and has since been altered and extended and is now closed. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the principal centre of education in the community since 1877 and as the principal public building surviving on the site of the Leichardt township. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Blake, L. J. (ed.) Vision and Realisation: A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria, Volume 2. Education Department of Victoria, Melbourne, 1973, p. 473.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Le2 Place Leichardt Railway Station
Formerly
Address Derby - Leichardt Road Leichardt
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 378353 Leichardt 7724-4-3
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The site of Leichardt station is marked by the platform mound, cut back from the railway line and by a former Grain Elevators Board weighbridge (Hawke and Co) with recent office and silos.
History Leichardt was opened with the line to Inglewood in 1876 but appears not to have had permanent buildings erected. It was placed under caretaker in charge conditions from 1st. June, 1896. The signals were removed in 1900 and it was established as an electric staff station in 1910. It was operated as such seasonally until 1925 and functioned under no-one in charge conditions from 1st. August, 1939. The electric staff instrument was removed in 1940 and the station closed to passenger traffic from 6th. May, 1963. It remained open for goods in wagon loads only from that date. The sidings have since been removed, the silos being served by road transport when inspected in 2000.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people Context on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of The former Grain Elevators Board weighbridge at the site of Leichardt railway station Significance was built by Hawke and Company of Kapunda, South Australia, along with many others in that State and several others serving grain sidings on the Victorian railway network. It is historically and technically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to recall the existence of Leichardt railway station at this site. It is technically significant (Criterion F) as a surviving structure of its type, comparing with others manufactured by Hawke and Co. at locations including Borung and with cart weighbridges manufactured by the Newport Workshops for the former Victorian Railways and by H. and R. Pooley of Liverpool also for the Victorian Railways. The survival of the original cast iron platform enhances the technical significance of this structure. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Guiney, M., "Weekly Notice Extracts 1894-1994" Weekly Notice Productions, 1996.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Le3 Place Farm house: "Hillside"
Formerly
Address Bell Lucas Road Leichardt
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 364357 Leichardt 7724-4-3
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A presumed Inter War period farm house with posted verandah to the façade and all other elevations. There is a pyramidal corrugated iron clad roof with Dutch gabled treatment affording ventilation and carried down to form the verandah roof. The weatherboards are bullnosed and the façade is arranged symmetrically about the front door which is balanced by coupled double hung windows. The rafter ends are exposed to view with raked soffits in the manner of the period and the plain verandah posts are enriched with Arts and Crafts influences brackets. There are tall but plain chimneys.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High. Outbuildings understood to be early. Well in situ.
History John Bell travelled from Deane, Cumberland, England to Australia in 1854. Bell and his family moved into their first homestead west of Leichardt (Bell’s Swamp).
An old farmhouse from Derby was moved onto Bell’s farm for use as a shearing shed. Many of the local farmers drove their sheep to the shed where they were shorn and dipped. The farm was also the centre for the threshing of the area’s crops.
In 1883, the family moved to another home in the Leichardt area, leaving the two eldest sons on the original property.
The original farm has been sold and divided over the years. The current owners live in a farmhouse built c1930. The original house is no longer in evidence, however various outbuildings testify to the former farm activity.
Thematic 3.4 Developing primary production. Context
Statement of The present Lucas farm with outbuildings was established by John Bell during the mid Significance nineteenth century. It is situated on Bell Lucas Road to the west of the present Leichardt railway siding.The present farmhouse, understood to have been built c.1930, is of historic interest and of aesthetic significance.
It is of historic interest for its link with the settlement of the area by John Bell during the mid nineteenth century, some of the outbuildings and structures being understood to date from his period of occupancy. The farm house is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a substantially intact house of its period which is expressed in its architectural form (pyramidal roof and peripheral verandah) and ornamentation (brackets), the absence of excessive ornamentation being a characteristic of the time appropriate to the presumed simple life lead by its occupants. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References A Country Centenary: Leichardt 1874-1974, n.a., n.p.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study L11 Place Kangaroo Reef Quartz Mine (not found)
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Address Kangaroo Reef Laanecoorie
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study L12 Place American Reef Quartz Mine (not found)
Formerly
Address American Reef Laanecoorie
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study Min1 Place Mincha State School no. 3628 (closed)
Formerly Mincha Station School no. 3628
Address Mincha North Road Mincha
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 366118 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A standard Victorian Public Works Department single classroom timber framed school building with entry and cloak room. The classroom is the dominant element with a Dutch gabled roof, typical double hung classroom windows with upper lights and high light windows to the side wall facing the fireplace and blackboards. The cloak room and entry also has a Dutch gabled roof at a lower level with high light windows and double doors to the playground. The red brick chminey is a dominant element. There is a standard hip roofed timber framed shelter shed divided into a store and shelter in the playground with weatherboard cladding.
Condition: Sound, maintenance needed. Integrity: High, includes school gate and fence.
History The school was originally named the Mincha Station School to avoid confusion with other Mincha schools in the area. The school was first established in 1909 in the Mincha Wine Shades Hall. The present weatherboard building was erected in 1911. The building was considered by the Pyramid Hill Advertiser to be:
of the most up to date design, and consists of one large class-room which is well ventilated and has ample lighting from no less than 107 panes of glass…The school presents a most pleasing appearance not only from the outside, but more especially from the inside, where one has to pass through a well equipped cloakroom, featuring a wash basin, before entering the class-room.
After the sale of the Wine Shades Hall in 1920, the school became the meeting place for the community and for church services until the church and hall were built in 1936-7. The school closed for several years in the 1950s, and closed permanently in 1976.
It is now in private hands.
Thematic 6. Educating. 6.2. Establishing schools. Context Statement of The former Mincha Station School, later Mincha school no. 3628, was established in the Significance present building on this site in 1911. It was designed by the Victorian Public Works Department during G. W. Watson's term as chief architect. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the only centre of education at Mincha from 1911 until 1976. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a representative small school complex of the Post Federation period enhanced by the attached entry/cloak room and the shelter shed. It is the most important example of its type in these respects, comparing with Durham Ox and Barraport in the Shire of Loddon and a total of 22 similar buildings at the State level. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over the removal of outbuildings.
References Spowart, Cliff, About Mincha: A History of the Communities of Mincha West, Mincha East, Mincha South, and Mincha Railway. Pyramid Hill and District Historical Society, Pyramid Hill, 1998, p. 40 Back to Mincha Calendar. Northern Times Print, Kerang, 1998 Blake, L. J. (ed.) Vision and Realisation: A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria, Volume 2. Education Department of Victoria, Melbourne, 1973, p. 573 Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Min2 Place Mincha Public Hall Min2 Formerly
Address Mincha North Road Mincha
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 366118 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A timber framed horizontal corrugated iron clad public hall with subordinate hip roofed porch at the front and lean to section at the rear. The main roof is Dutch gabled and there are highlight windows along the sides. The doors are faced with timber and there are early corrugated iron clad toilets at the rear with curved roofs in a manner occasionally used at the time. The front fence is timber framed with wire mesh panels and there are axe finished granite piers to decorative memorial gates commemorating "those who served in 1939-45".
Inside, linings are of timber with strapwork to cement sheets. The kitchen area has masonite linings.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, stove recess and chimney demolished.
History After a promise of £220 in subscriptions, Mincha Hall was opened in December, 1937 by Cr. C. Marfleet after a fund-raising campaign begun 20 years previously. The corrugated iron Hall was built by contractors Messrs. Bartels and Ault. The opening celebrations included a Novelty Sports Meeting and Fete and a Gala Opening Ball. The Hall was at first unlined except for a six foot high dado. Water was heated by an external wood-fired copper. Lining of the Hall was finished in the 1950s, and power provided in 1956 by a 32 volt lighting plant.
The Memorial Gates were dedicated in March, 1950, to ‘those who gave their lives to the country during the war.’
The Hall continues to be used regularly.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. Context
Statement of The Mincha public hall is situated on the Mincha North Road, Mincha, and was opened Significance in 1937. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a public memorial hall commemorating the involvement of the district in the Second World War and as a public meeting place and entertainment venue since 1937. This importance is enhanced by the progessive abandonment of the township at Mincha, leaving the hall as a crucial reminder of the importance of the township to settlers during the Inter War period and subsequently. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a building of its type using corrugated iron cladding, comparing in this respect with the abandoned hall at Mologa and the Annuello hall in the Mallee. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Back to Mincha Calendar. Northern Times Print, Kerang, 1998 Pyramid Hill Advertiser, 16 March, 1949
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Min3 Place Mincha Butter Factory (closed)
Formerly
Address Mincha North Road Mincha
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 366118 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A disused butter factory consisting of two principal buildings, the southernmost building being of concrete construction with a gabled roof, the gable ends being asbestos cement sheet clad. The rear elevation reveals the outline of a demolished double gable roofed production area, the concrete mountings for removed plant being in situ. The northernmost building has red brick base walls with asbestos cement sheet upper sections with timber strapwork and a continuous curve roofed lantern to the gable roof. The façade has a centrally located hip roofed porch with double timber doors and flanking windows with surmounting flat metal sheet linings formerly giving the name of the proprietor, H. Manley and the name of the enterprise: Mincha Butter Factory". The sheet metal linings have been extended to form the eaves terminations and have been raised above the ridge line in a rectangular parapet.
Condition: Sound but derelict. Integrity: Medium, substantial elements demolished and removed. Interior of buildings not inspected.
History The Mincha Butter Factory and Store was originally established as a creamery by Mr. Arthur Mann in 1890. An Alfa Laval separator separated the cream and milk; the milk was returned to farms and fed to pigs, the cream was sent by train to a butter factory in Bendigo or Melbourne.
With the advent of on-farm cream production in the 1890s, a butter factory was established on the premises by Mr. John McKay. A cellar was dug so that churning could take place in cooler temperatures, and later a small refrigeration plant was installed. The Pyramid Advertiser in 1898 reported that John McKay and Co. were exporting butter to London through Warrnambool, and in 1905 the Company won the prestigious Islington (London) trophy for export butter.
In 1912, steam power was replaced by a 20 hp. Ruston-Proctor crude oil engine, and a new section added to the factory in the early 1930s to house the latest processing equipment. H. Manley and Company Pty. Ltd. purchased the butter factory in 1922. The store was destroyed by fire in 1939, subsequently rebuilt, and butter factory and store purchased by the Pyramid Hill Dairy Company in 1949. It closed the same year.
Today it stands empty. Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.12 Developing an Australia Context manufacturing capacity.
Statement of H. Manley and Company Pty. Ltd's. butter factory purchased in 1922 has its origins in Significance Arthur Mann's butter factory and store on this site established in 1890. It is situated within the Mincha township on the Mincha North Road. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a surviving privately owned butter factory pre- dating the Post War era of rationalisation and recalling not only the economic importance of Mincha to its district but also past food production practices. These involved cream being separated on farms and collected for processing into butter at local centres of production by horse drawn and later motorised road and rail services. The finished product was then despatched by rail to remote markets. The surviving factory buildings at Mincha demonstrate the scale and nature of a small undertaking of its kind and indirectly the associated transport arrangements that helped to sustain a now vanished community. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Back to Mincha Calendar. Northern Times Print, Kerang, 1998 East Loddon Historical Society, research notes Stephens, Keith, The Hill and the Plain: A Gathering of Stories about the Pyramid Hill District 1925-1960. Cambridge Printers, Bendigo, 1991
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Mi3 Place Mitiamo Railway station ground
Formerly
Address Corner Glossop and Jeffrey street Mitiamo
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 509889 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The principal contributory elements of the complex of buildings and structures formerly in existence on this site are the station master's rsidence (DR 943) and the water tower. The former has been defaced following the replacement of its front windows but is recognizable as a standard single fronted nineteenth century house of its type (Class 3, possibly 4). It is timber framed and single fronted with a corrugated iron clad hipped roof and posted verandah. The water tower is a standard structure of its type with a 20 foot diameter riveted iron plate tank with bellied base supported on 21 foot high cast iron columns with flared papyrus capitals and flared bases on cement pedestal footings. The frame is cross braced with metal ties and intermediate stays and there are associated supply and delivery pipes. The platform mound, cut back from the running lines, is also in situ.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High (water tower), Medium (residence).
History Permanent survey of the railway line to Mitiamo was completed in 1881. In 1882-3 the line was constructed from Eaglehawk to Mitiamo by contractor, Frederick Wilkins (contract signed 21st. October, 1881). More than £9000 was spent at the Mitiamo railway station grounds, including the building of the railway station. The largest single item of expenditure was the excavation of a water tank undertaken by James Hughes under a contract signed on 31st. October, 1882. David Munro undertook the water supply installation under a contract signed 23rd. February, 1883. The isntallation included an engine house, 20,000 gallon tank, water crane, steam boiler and a windmill pumping plant. Other station works included sheep and cattle yards, an engine shed (contractor Joseph Hollow, contract date 28th. September, 1883), a goods shed and platform, a 50 foot turntable (contractor David Munro, contract date 28th. September, 1883), platform buildings, station master’s house (contractor T. Bennett, contract date 21st. January, 1888), a residence for the pumper (contractor P. Rodger, contract date 12th. January, 1889), a timber platform, and a dairy shed. Mr N. Irwin won the tender for the building of the goods shed and platform (contract date 5th. October, 1883); the Bennet Brothers won the tender for the building of the sheep and cattle yards and signed their contract on 26th. October, 1883. The station building was erected by W. Crocker (contract date 14th. May, 1887) and the refreshment room added by N. Longstaff (contract date 15th. December, 1888).
The line was officially opened by the Governor of Victoria who was transported to Mitiamo by a suitably decorated train. It also carried a large number of Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament and stock and station agents keen to find new outlets for farming machinery. Over 1,000 people attended the opening ceremony. The construction of the line provided employment for many in the region; others worked as gate-keepers. Mitiamo operated as the terminus until the line was opened to Pyramid Hill and subsequently Kerang. The station also housed refreshment rooms.
Mitiamo was placed in the hands of a caretaker from 11th. December, 1979 and closed to passenger traffic from 5th. October, 1982. The station building was demolished about this time but the refreshment rooms had been removed some years previously. The water tower is now used by the local fire brigade.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people Context on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of Mitiamo railway station was opened with the railway between Raywood and Mitiamo on Significance 21st. June, 1883 and closed to passenger traffic on 5th. October, 1982. It remains open for bulk grain traffic. The principal surviving elements associated with the extensive complex of buildings and structures established here are the water tower and the former station master's house. They are historically significant.
They are historically significant (Criterion A) for their capacity to recall the existence of Mitiamo as a temporary terminus and important centre of railway operations from 1882 until the Post War era, the water tower demonstrating an aspect of the place as a servicing point for steam locomotives during this period. The former station master's house, whilst surviving elsewhere in a more intact state at places including Boort and Goorambat contributes to contemporary interpretation of the place. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Lewis, Miles, Australian Architectural Index, 1977, SLV Sharland, Michael, "Those Verdant Plains". Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971, pp. 141- 2. Report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for 6 months ending 30.6.1884 and the y.e. 30.6.1885. Contract Books. Guiney, M., "Weekly Notices 1894-1994" Weekly Notice Productions, 1996. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Aug 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Mi4 Place Uniting Church
Formerly
Address Haig Street Mitiamo
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 509891 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A timber framed gable roofed vernacular Gothic Revival church with porch and vestry at the rear. The front gables are decorated with fretwork and finials and the openings have lancet arches. The openings of the rear vestry have rectangular heads. The cladding is recent pvc coated.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History Tenders for the building of a Bible Christian Church were called for in 1893 by architects Barlow and Chandler. The timber church building was opened in November, 1884, at a cost of £50 for the land, £170 for the building and architects’ fees of £5/5/-. The church headed the circuit which included Muloo, Mologa West, Mologa East and Terrick East. The first Minister was the Rev. D. Daley. The church became Methodist c1885, and in 1893, a parsonage was erected. In 1927, the church building was used by the local school when its premises were enlarged. In 1935, the building was stayed from inside, and in the same year the Scroll ‘Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness’ was painted on the wall above the pulpit. Since 1936, combined services have taken place with the congregation of St. Paul’s Anglican Church.
The church building underwent some fundamental changes in the 1960s when the central pulpit and lining of the wall behind it were dismantled and reredos and a wooden cross mounted in their place. Leadlight windows, a gift to the Mologa Methodist Church in 1934 from Mr W. G. Webb of Bendigo, were also put in place, as were stained glass windows in memory of local parishioners Mr and Mrs Sims. An army canteen hut was purchased in 1962 and put on the site as a Sunday school.
In 1980, the church building was clad with pvc coated cladding at a cost of $5000 to eliminate the need for painting.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The former Bible Christian Church, later Methodist and now Uniting Church in Haig Significance Street, Mitiamo, was built in 1894 to the design of architects Barlow and Chandler. It is presently used also by the Anglican Church in Mitiamo. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a centre of Protestant worship in Mitiamo since 1893 and the oldest church in the township, this significance being enhanced by its continued use for this purpose. It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) for its enrichment in the vernacular Gothic Revival mode, comparing in this respect with Scots Presbyterian Church at Boort and St. Dominic's Presbyterian Church at Dingee. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References East Loddon Historical Society documents Lewis, Miles, Australian Architectural Index, 1977, SLV Mitiamo Methodist Church Centenary 1884-1994, n.d.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Mi5 Place Mitiamo Public Hall
Formerly
Address Haig street Mitiamo
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 511891 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A late Victorian overpainted brick hall with porch at the front and later timber framed corrugated iron clad rear additions. The façade with the front porch has parapeted gable ends with corbelled projections to accommodate the eaves and gutters forming design elements. They are balanced by elevated rectangular terminations at the gable apexes, a projecting coping course and porch window adding strength to the design. The side walls have openings at regular intervals on both sides with rear corrugated iron clad additions obscuring part of the north side wall and the rear. The roof has a shallow pitch and is also corrugated iron clad. The side wall addition is presumed to be the most recent and is clad with aluminium siding. There are two detached brick toilets at the rear.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History The Mitiamo Public Hall, built in 1884, was opened by Mr John M. Highett M.L.A. on 25th May, 1885. A race meeting, as a part of the opening celebrations, preceded the official opening. A special train from Bendigo brought 120 passengers for the race meeting which was attended by 800 people. The building of the hall took place in the year following the opening of the railway.
The Hall has been renovated in recent years and is regularly used by the community.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. Forming associations. Context
Statement of The Mitiamo hall is situated in Haig Street, Mitiamo and was built in 1884 and opened Significance on 25th. May, 1885. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as an extremely early public building in the township demonstrating through its age the transfer of the Mitiamo township to its present site with the opening of the railway in 1883. It is important also as a public meeting place and entertainment venue in the township since 1885. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an austere and conservative building for its time, the windows, and façade treatment being representative of the early - mid Victorian period. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References East Loddon Historical Society documents
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Mi6 Place War Memorial
Formerly
Address Glossop Street Mitiamo
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 510889 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A granite memorial located at the corner of Glossop and Haig Streets with a concrete surround and pathway given emphasis by two lesser memorials at the point of entry and an associated field gun and flag pole. The principle memorial has an axe finished base and step with dressed margins and a central stage with honour rolls and surmounting upper stage consisting of a female figue above a pedimented cap. She holds a bunch of flowers in one hand and is letting a single flower fall to the ground where there is an inscription reading "Pro Deo Pro Patria" (for God and the Fatherland). There is also a small granite memorial to Sergeant Thomas Henry Clarke, killed in action 21.1.44 in New Guinea, aged 31.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High. Includes mature Currajongs.
History The Mitiamo sub-branch of the R.S.L. was very active in the area from the end of World War I. The Mitiamo Soldiers’ Memorial was erected to those who went from the Mitiamo district to serve in World War I. Over 80 names were inscribed on the stone; 23 of whom never returned. The Memorial was unveiled in November, 1919. Commemoration celebrations included a parade of soldiers and the Pyramid Hill Brass Band that left from the railway station grounds at 2.00pm. At the conclusion of the parade, a number of speeches were made and refreshments provided. The evening saw the conducting of a concert.
Subsequent memorials have been added to the area to commemorate those who served in World War II. These consist of brass plaques with the inscriptions ‘1939’ and ‘1945’, and an individual granite stone which is dedicated to Sergeant Thomas Henry Clarke.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.8. Remembering the fallen. Context
Statement of The Mitiamo war memorial is located on a public reserve at the corner of Glossop and Significance Haig Streets, Mitiamo, and was unveiled in November, 1919. It is historically, aesthetically and socially significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to commemorate the district's participation in the World Wars, demonstrating also the patriotism and strength of the community at the time. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) for its aspect over the principal intersection of the township and for the symbolism of the solitary female figure mourning the loss of the district's youth. It is socially significant (Criterion G) for the value placed on it and for the values which it expresses for the township of Mitiamo and its district. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Australian Heritage Commission Register and the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Back To Mitiamo Official Souvenir and Programme 1936, The Lady Publishing Company, Melbourne.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study T1 Place Tandarra Railway Station: grain silos
Formerly Grain Elevators Board silos
Address Railway Station, Tandarra - Elmore Road Tandarra
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 507645 Dingee Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description This site consists of a standard former Grain Elevators Board concrete silo block with 2 later standard metal silos with conical roofs and a large steel framed grain shed. There is a mound on the east side of the sidings suggestive of the former passenger platform location with associated mature peppercorns.
History The building of the railway line through from Raywood to Mitiamo in 1883 gave rise to the township of Tandarra. It consisted of a general store, a blacksmith, a school, a post office, and a hall. S Rodda and Son were contracted on 28th. September, 1883 to erect a platform and goods shed at Yallook (Tandarra). C.K. Makepeace contracted on 4th. April, 1898 to erect offices and sheep races were subsequenlty provided. Other structures included two Railway Department residences. Tandarra was placed under man-in-charge conditions from 1st. January, 1904 and caretaker conditions from 15th. April, 1904. Nos. 2 and 3 roads were extended in 1929 and the former placed out of use from 12th. November, 1946. The concrete silos are understood to have been built c.1939 , the metal silos c.1965 and a large steel framed shed c.1975 during a bumper harvest. No-one-in-charge conditions applied from 21st. November, 1967. Tandarra was closed to passenger traffic from 5th. November, 1968 and the passenger platform removed.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people Context on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of The Tandarra railway station was opened with the line in 1883 and closed to passenger Significance traffic in 1968. It remains open to grain traffic, the infrastructure established for this purpose having been built from c.1939 to c.1975. The site is of historic interest for its capacity to mark the site of Tandarra township, now removed save for these structures. Recommendations Nil. Whilst there is insufficient built evidence to warrant planning scheme controls, it is recommended that a plaque be erected on the station ground facing the Tandarra- Elmore Road to commemmorate the formation of a township at this location.
References Local farmer in charge of silos. Sharland, Michael, Those Verdant Plains. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971, passim. Guiney, M.: "Weekly Notice Extracts 1894-1994", Weekly Notice Productions, 1996. Contract Books.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study D1 Place St. Lukes Anglican Church
Formerly St. Lukes Church of England
Address Dingee - Rochester Road Dingee
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 516710 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A timber framed Arts and Crafts influenced church with weatherboard dado and cement sheet linings with strapping above. There is a main gable roofed nave with fleche and roof vents and a porch, sanctuary and vestry as subordinate gable roofed elements. The rear doors are protected by a timber posted verandah formed by an extension of the roof. The upper sashes have pointed heads and the windows are lead lit. There are recent unsympathetic additions.
Inside there is a timber dado with plaster fill and plaster ceilings, the sheets joined by strapwork. Timber trusses have metal ties and there is a pointed archway to the sanctuary.
Condition: Sound, maintenance needed. Integrity: High.
History The first Anglican Church services were believed to have been held in private homes in the 1860s, and from the 1870s in the Yallook School. From 1920, services were held in Dingee in the Mechanics’ Institute Hall. In 1906, Dr. Atkinson, the owner of Terrick Terrick West (?) Station, gazetted in 1848, donated a block of land in Dingee for the erection of a memorial church. After his death in the early 1920s, his wife carried out his wish, supervising the design of the church. St. Luke's Anglican Church was constructed mainly of cement sheeting; Mrs Atkinson donated the altar cross, brass vases, credence table and reading desk.
The Church was opened and dedicated by Bishop Donald Baker in December 1926. After the Yallook Anglican Christ Church closed in 1944, the memorial tablet to Robert Morris Jackman was transferred to Dingee along with a large chair made by his son, James.
The Church continues to be used today.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3 Making Context places for worship. Statement of The Anglican Church of St. Luke at Dingee was dedicated in December, 1926, having Significance been funded posthumously by Dr. Atkinson, owner of Terrick Terrick West (?) Station. It is historically and aesthetically important.
It is historically important (Criterion A) as a centre of worship at Dingee since 1926 and for its links with the Terrick Terrick West (?) Station, an important early land holding in the district.
It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as an understated though picturesque Arts and Crafts Church, forming an important public building in the township. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Baker, Denise, Back to Dingee and District 1983. Back-to Committee, 1983, p. 29 East Loddon Historical Society documents Sharland, Michael, Those Verdant Plains. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971, p. 169
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jun 2000 Loddon Heritage Study D2 Place House
Formerly Store: "Yeomanry Store"
Address Dingee - Rochester Road Dingee
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 514712 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A double gable roofed timber framed former store and residence with transverse gable and timber posted bullnosed verandah to the façade and west facing elevation. The façade consists of two early display windows with two pairs of entry doors either side. There is a residential entrance with two doors facing west.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, one verandah post removed to serve as a carport. Associated picket fence. Bullnosed verandah may not be original.
History This building is believed to have housed a general store in the 1880s which was run by James Hinder. It was later called the "Yeomanry Store" and went into liquidation in 1892. The Dingee Farmers’ Cooperative purchased the store which was then managed by Mr Kelynack for 37 years, and later Mr J. M. Old. It went into voluntary liquidation in 1927.
The store closed in 1984, and is currently used as a private residence.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities. 4.5 Making towns to serve rural Australia Context (Dingee).
Statement of The former "Yeomanry Store" on the Dingee-Rochester Road, Dingee, was established Significance during the 1880s, later traded as the "Yeomanry Store" and finally closed in 1984. It has historic and aesthetic importance.
It is historically important (Criterion A) as a store associated with the history of the township for approximately a century, having been operated for a period as a co- operative venture.
It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as a substantially intact nineteenth century building with original shop front windows and aspect over the southern approach into town. Its proximity to the principle intersection causes it to contribute to the identity of the township, Dingee being distinguished at the present time when compared with nearby settlement sites by the survival of the fabric of its town centre. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Baker, Denise, Back to Dingee and District 1983. Back-to Committee, 1983, pp. 8 & 15
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2000 Loddon Heritage Study D3 Place Railway hotel
Formerly
Address Dingee - Rochester Road/ Prairie Road int Dingee
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 516712 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A prominent small timber hotel with timber posted verandah to the Dingee Rochester Road and Bendigo Pyramid Road elevations. The early windows are in situ. There is a hipped corrugated iron clad roof and an absence of ornamentation. Early gable roofed wings with a posted verandah erected at different stages are associated with the main building.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, later lattice balustrade to verandah.
History Historical details about the Railway Hotel are sketchy, however it is believed that the original building on this site was the first hotel building in the area, the Hope Plains Hotel, built in Wight’s paddock east of Dingee. It was shifted to its present site in 1883 when the railway was constructed and renamed appropriately the Dingee Railway Hotel.
It is claimed that the Hotel housed 23 rooms and up to 12 boarders at a time, and was rebuilt c1913. In 1975-6, the hotel was extensively renovated.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11. Feeding people. 3.11.5 Context Retailing foods and beverages.
Statement of The Railway Hotel at Dingee is situated at the corner of the principal intersecting Significance thoroughfares in the township and was rebuilt c.1913 but is understood to incorporate the fabric of the earlier Hope Plains Hotel relocated to the present site in 1883. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the principal meeting place and hotel in the township since its formation with the arrival of the railway on 21st. June, 1883. The presumed survival of the earlier Hope Plains Hotel recalls the era prior to railway communication and its settlements which included Mologa, Pyramid Hill and Terrick Terrick being either relocated or abandoned with the coming of the railway.
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as the principal public building in the township being located at the main corner intersection and surviving today as a reasonably uncommon single storeyed timber hotel, comparing with Grant's former hotel at Mologa, Gunn's Raywood Hotel, the Railway Hotel (1902) at Wychitella and the Avoca Forest Hotel (1910) at Logan. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Baker, Denise, Back to Dingee and District 1983. Back-to Committee, 1983, p. 19
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study D4 Place House (former post and telegraph office)
Formerly Postand Telegraph Office
Address Bendigo - Pyramid Road Dingee
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 515712 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative hip roofed timber villa with bullnosed verandah to both elevations facing the Bendigo Pyramid Road and the Dingee Rochester Road. The former post office is an attached gable roofed building facing the former thoroughfare at the north end of the house. The façade of the house is symmetrical with a central door and flanking double hung windows either side. The former post office has a porch and service window on the north side and a presumed telephone box enclosure. There are two double hung windows with glazing bars addressing the street about a central door and a finial at the gable apex.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, includes presumed telehone box.
History Dingee Post Office was opened at the railway station in December 1883.The post office was presumably removed to the present building at a later time, A telephone exchange was installed in December, 1912 and began service with two lines. By 1939, there were 38 subscribers; in April 1981, the exchange was converted to an automatic exchange. The postmaster was A.H. Vinnicombe in 1951.
The post office closed in ? and is today used as a private residence.
Thematic 7. Governing. 7.5 Developing administrative structures and authorities. 7.5.7. Providing Context services and welfare (postal).
Statement of The former Dingee post and telegraph office and associated house appear to have been Significance built during the first decade of the twentieth century, postal services to Dingee having their origins at the railway station in 1883. The former post office with associated quarters is located at the principal intersection of the township with the post office building facing the Bendigo Pyramid Road. It is historically important.
It is historically important (Criterion A) as the centre of postal services at Dingee presumably for the greater part of the twentieth century. Its presence at the principal intersection of the township gives definition to the town centre and is important also in this respect. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Baker, Denise, Back to Dingee and District 1983. Back-to Committee, 1983, p. 20. Sands and McDougall directory: 1951. VPP 1884, v.3 report of the Post and Telegraph Department for 1883.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study D5 Place Dingee Railway station
Formerly
Address Bendigo - Pyramid Road Dingee
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 515714 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A railway station complex consisting of station building, platform, signal masts and departmental residence no. 2737. The station building is similar to standard designs of the Great War period and contains an office with public counter and waiting room. There is a timber posted verandah to the platform and south end and a booking window facing the platform. The verandah posts have Arts and Crafts influenced brackets and there are rectangular gable end vents. Inside, linings are in timber whilst the brickwork to the chimney is suggestive of a late Inter-War date. So too are the bullnosed weatherboards.
The Departmental Residence no. 2737 is a standard cement block Class 3 house with gabled roof extended to form a front posted verandah. There is a standard timber portable room at the rear. The signal masts have standard Post Federation period lattice masts.
There is a Behlen shed on the west side of the yard erected by the former Grain Elevators Board.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, includes recent fence and relocated yard gates.
History In December 1882, the railway line from Sandhurst to Raywood was completed, and the workers moved on to set up staging camps at Yallook (Tandarra), Talambe (Dingee), and Pannoomilloo (Prairie). The contract to erect a goods shed was let on 12th. October, 1883 to B. Jensen. Sheep yards and races were erected by R.H. Roberts Jnr. under a contract signed on 20th. February, 1885. A caretaker replaced the station master in September, 1931 and by 1939 the telegraph instrument had been removed. The station building was detroyed by fire in March, 1944. The Dingee station grew to include three residences for gang employees built c. 1911 (incl. DR. no.936) and later a station-master’s house (D.R. 2737) built in 1925. A goods shed, a grain shed, pig shed, and cattle and sheep yards were erected in the railway yards.
The goods shed was removed c.1978, the station remaining open at that time for goods in wagon loads only and for passenger traffic. Following the removal of staff, the Loddon Shire leased the station building for community purposes from 1992.
Dingee station continues to operate as a passenger stop, however the railway station is no longer operational and houses the ‘Lions Bargain Centre’. Silos also operate at the yards. Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people Context on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of The station building complex at Dingee was established with the opening of the line Significance between Raywood and Mitiamo on 21st. June, 1883. The station building was burnt down in 1944 and replaced with the present structure which may have been relocated. The complex is historically and socially significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a passenger and goods transportation facility for the Dingee township provided by the Victorian Government continuously since 1883 until privatisation. The complex continues in use for railway purposes. This significance is enhanced by the economic importance of the railway which brought about the formation of the township, the survival of the station building therefore being symbolic of this role and status. The existence of a booking window facing the platform is unusual and may be an indication of the building's presumed comparatively recent date.
The complex is socially significant (Criterion G) for the value placed on it by the Dingee community which fought to have the station building retained, continues to use it today, and which also fought to retain its rail passenger service as recently as 1993.
NB. Examination of the Way and Works Department files may clarify the date of construction. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Scheudule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Baker, Denise, Back to Dingee and District 1983. Back-to Committee, 1983, p. 17. Guniey, M.m "Weekly Notice Extracts 1894-1994", Weekly Notice Productions, 1996. Victorian Railways: "Report of the Board of Land and Works for the y.e. 31st. December, 1883". Conversation between station staff member and Andrew Ward, 11th. July, 1979. "Bendigo Advertiser", 21/8/92, p.3, 14/1/93. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study D6 Place St. Dominic's Catholic Church
Formerly
Address Bendigo - Pyramid Road Dingee
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 516714 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative vernacular Gothic Revival timber church with steeply pitched corrugated iron clad roofs to the nave and subordinate porch, and vestry. Window, door openings and gable end vents are lancet arched and there are roof vents with cusped ornamentation. The front gable ends are enriched with lancet arched motifs with turned pendants and unusual cross shaped finials along the sides and at the apexes of the gables. Lead light work is characteristic of the Inter-War period.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History St Dominic’s Catholic Church was built by contractors Robertson and McFarland, and apprentice C. Woods, at a cost of £800. It was officially opened in February, 1928, by Bishop McArthur, and continues to be used today.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The Catholic Church of St. Dominic is situated on the Bendigo Pyramid Road, Dingee Significance and was built in 1928. It is historically and aesthetically important. It is historically important (Criterion A) as the only Catholic Church to have served the Dingee community since 1928, this importance being enhanced by its continued use by the Catholic Church as a place of worship. It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as a vernacular Gothic Revival timber church with considerable ornamentation, comparing with Scots Prebyterian Church at Boort within the Shire of Loddon. The treatment of the finials is unusual. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Baker, Denise, Back to Dingee and District 1983. Back-to Committee, 1983, p. 31
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study D7 Place Dingee Memorial Hall
Formerly
Address Bendigo - Pyramid Road Dingee
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 516715 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A utilitarian corrugated iron clad public hall with gable roof in the manner of an industrial building but with a remarkable late Modernist façade consisting of a rectangular parapeted corrugated iron clad wall, symmetrically composed with a central flat roofed porch and flanking steel framed windows but with three oculus vents arranged vertically above the porch and a flagpole to one side with horizontal stays in the Modernist manner. There is a later lean to addition on the south side.
Inside, there is a stage and honour rolls, the lowest oculus vent serving the hall and the upper two the roof space.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History The Dingee Memorial Hall, built on the same site as the Mechanics’ Institute, was opened in 1956 to commemorate those who had served in World War II. It replaced the old hall of some 50 years and was twice the size. It was to have a brick frontage, however finances did not allow for the erection of this. The Hall was officially opened by Sir Herbert Hyland and dedicated by the Bishop of Bendigo, the Right Reverend R. E. Richards, M.A., in July 1957. Men and women, returned from the Second World War, marched from the post office to mark the opening attended by a crowd of approximately 450.
The Pyramid Hill Advertiser described the new Hall: In striking contrast to the old hall that has served the district faithfully for many years, the new hall is built on modern lines, and is finished inside in pastel shades. Electric lighting is by fluorescent tubes, and the stage setting should facilitate concerts and other entertainments. Permanent seating around the walls of the hall accommodates more than 200 people.
The local sub-branch of the RSL donated the wrought iron ‘Dingee Memorial Hall’ name plate for the new building.
In 1957, the old Mechanics’ Institute Hall was dismantled.
In later years, a supper room was added to the Hall with the aid of Shire labour and the Rural Employment Development Scheme. It was officially opened by Mr S. Hocking in June 1975.
Today the Hall is used regularly and a pre-school operates from the former supper-room. Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.5. Forming associations. 8.8 Context Remembering the fallen.
Statement of The Dingee Memorial Hall is situated on the Bendigo Pyramid Road, Dingee and was Significance officially opened in July, 1957. It is historically and aesthetically important. It is historically important (Criterion A) as a public meeting place and entertainment venue in the community since 1957, its presence recalling the existence on this site of an earlier hall erected c.1900. The honour rolls link the building with the soldiers from the district who participated in the World Wars.
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a somewhat belated but nevertheless vigorous and unsual essay in the European Modernist style, the geometry and flagpole motif being the principal identifiers. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Baker, Denise, Back to Dingee and District 1983. Back-to Committee, 1983, p. 21 East Loddon Historical Society documents Pyramid Hill Advertiser 14 July, 1957. Sharland, M., "These Verdant Plains A History of the Shire of East Loddon", Melbourne, illustration of hall in 1919, fp.212. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study P1 Place "Rangeview Park"
Formerly Prairie railway station goods shed
Address Bendigo - Pyramid Road Prairie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 509774 Dingee-Kamarooka 7725-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A standard late nineteenth century single door Victorian Railways Department goods shed with timber frame and corrugated iron clad walls and roof. The roof extends beyond the walls along the sides to protect the platform (missing) and there are fixed timber louvres in the gable ends.
History This goods shed was built at Prairie railway station by C. Fielding under a contract signed on 1st. November, 1895. A cool store and weighing machine were subsequently provided at Prairie. The station was placed under no-one in charge conditions from 23rd. January, 1978 and closed to passenger traffic from 5th. October, 1982.
A nearby farming family, the Thomases, relocated the goods shed from the station c.1978 by hauling it across the fields from the station ground.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people Context on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of The former Victorian Railways Department goods shed at Prairie railway station was Significance erected to a standard design in 1895 and relocated c. 1978 to "Rangeview Park" on the Bendigo-Pyramid Road, Prairie. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its association with the railway station at Prairie which remains open today solely for grain traffic but which formerly met all of the long distance transport needs of the community. It is the sole remaining building associated with the former railway station complex. As such it is a source of information concerning this station as well as the railway between Eaglehawk and Piangil. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Geoff and Hilary Thomas, Wal Thomas.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jan 2001 Loddon Heritage Study P2 Place House
Formerly Prairie Store
Address Bendigo - Pyramid Road Prairie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 513792 Dingee-Kamarooka 7725-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A timber framed and weatherboard clad former general store with attached residence and early front windows protected by a timber posted verandah. There is a dominant gable roof with lean to additions to the south side and rear and a corrugated iron gable end.
Condition: Medium. Integrity: Medium, aluminium framed windows.
History Prairie went through a building boom in 1910 after a good wheat season. The township at this time consisted of a railway station, boarding house, Methodist church, blacksmiths, butcher and two stores. A general store was built on the west of the railway line by Mr. Nick Tonkin and Mr. Les Orchard in 1910 and provided stabling for the horses of train travellers. It burnt down in 1932 and was replaced by ‘The Pioneer Store’ which had been built from corrugated iron by John Nankervis on the west of the railway line. The store was shifted to the present site and altered by a later owner, Ernie Thomas, post World War II and renamed ‘R. E. Thomas Prairie Store’ The store also operated as a post office from 1918 until 1982. R.E. Thomas was the storekeeper in 1951 when Thomas Tonkin also ran a store.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Prairie). Context
Statement of The former General Store at Prairie is situated opposite the present railway siding on Significance the Bendigo Pyramid Road. It is historically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the sole surviving commercial building in the former township of Prairie, the only other comparable structure being the former goods shed at the railway station which survives on a farming property nearby. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Wal Thomas. Kent, J. A., The Major’s Vision – and its Fulfilment. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1974, p. 50 Thomas, W., A Little History of Prairie: Before, As Was, As Is’, n.d.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study C1 Place Pompapiel Calivil Cemetery
Formerly
Address Prairie West Road Calivil
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 388787 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A small isolated rural cemetery on level ground in a natural bush setting. There is a central avenue with denominational compartments either side and an encircling rabbit wire fence. The memorials commence in 1889 and include representative examples manufactured by Bendigo memorial masons including Wilson and Co., Patten's and Woods. There are also two recent toilets.
History The Pompapiel Cemetery was reserved in 1887. Head stones date from 1889. It is believed the cemetery is no longer used because of rising water tables.
Thematic 9. Marking the phases of life. 9.7. Disposing of dead bodies. Context
Statement of The Calivil/Pompapiel cemetery is located on the Prairie West Road to the immediate Significance east of Calivil at Guys Road. It was reserved in 1887. It is historically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to recall the lives of settlers in the irrigation areas of Calivil and Pompapiel, established following the opening of the Loddon United Water Trust's stock and domestic supply system in 1885. Recommendations Not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme since this is an undistinguished and representative place, the Planning Scheme provisions not being required to retain the historical information contained therein. References Cemetery Inventory, Historic Places Section, DNRE
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2000 Loddon Heritage Study C2 Place St. Marks Anglican Church
Formerly St. Marks Church of England
Address Prairie West Road Calivil
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 383787 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A small timber framed gable roofed church with Gothic Revival references in the lancet arched windows and doorway consisting of a nave, porch and vestry with attached lean- to section. There is a lead lit window to the sanctuary. Associated structures include toilets and a Sunday school hall. The front gate has an archway with the name of the church, its denomination and date of establishment and there are mature peppercorns and sugar gums in the immediate vicinity of the buildings.
Condition: Sound, side walls of nave propped. Integrity: High.
History The new church building replaced the old Anglican church and was officially opened and dedicated by Rt. Reverend Dr. Baker, Bishop of Bendigo in April 1937 in front of a congregation of 220. The building was purchased from Neilborough for £100, and cost £86 to move. Funds for the building were raised by the Calivil Church of England Ladies’ Guild, and members of the board of guardians built the chancel and vestry. Celebrations consisted of a sermon, and the next day a ‘Back to Calivil Church’ tea meeting and concert held at the Calivil Public Hall.
A Sunday school hall was built in 1959.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6. Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The Anglican Church of St. Mark at Calivil was established in this building at a Significance dedication ceremony held on Sunday, 4th. April, 1937, the building having been relocated from Neilborough East. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the only Anglican Church building to have served the Calivil district, having been vigorously supported at the time of its dedication and well into the Post War era. As a small vernacular Gothic Revival building it is representative of many similar structures established in isolated communities throughout Victoria. Finally, the building is important for its associations with Neilborough East, the date of construction, when known, bearing on its importance as a presumed early building. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Board on site gives opening date. Newspaper article (no title) April 13th, 1937 Transcript of speech given at the Service to commemorate 50 years of worship, 24th May, 1987. Sharland, M., "These Verdant Plains: A History of the Shire of East Loddon, Victoria", The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1971, pp.194-195. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2000 Loddon Heritage Study C3 Place Calivil Reserve War Memorial
Formerly
Address Prairie West Road Calivil
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 369787 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The Memorial Hall and monument stand on a 200 acre reserve which also includes a bowling green, golf course, tennis courts and football oval.The memorial is an imposing granite structure on a stepped bluestone base. The plinth is axe finished with tooled margins surmounted by a dressed granite skirting to a polished granite block having an incised dedication panel and honour roll. The superstructure is in a simplified temple form with pink granite columns supporting a pedimented granite roof with the insignia of the Australian Commonwealth Military forces and the initials AIF.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium. It is understood a brass canon has been removed.
History The Calivil Memorial Hall, dedicated ‘To the Pioneers’, was built in 1960 to replace the corrugated iron Calivil Hall erected in 1909. The new Hall, because it was constructed from Mt. Gambier sandstone, attracted much local interest. A cement brick kitchen extension was added c1995. The Hall contains Honour Rolls that list names of those who served in World War I and II.
A war memorial, commemorating those who served in World War I, stands on the same site. It was unveiled in 1920 at a cost of £400 raised by public subscription. A local newspaper article of the day described the memorial as having a 6 foot bottom step of black stone, a base stone of fine axed Harcourt granite upon which stood four highly polished red granite pillars atop which a granite canopy supported a miniature bronze canon. The canon was removed during World War II and is held by a local organisation for safe-keeping. Fifty names of local residents are inscribed on the monument.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.8. Remembering the fallen. Context
Statement of The war memorial at the Calivil public reserve was unveiled in 1920 and the memorial Significance hall erected in 1960 to replace an earlier building erected in 1909. The place is historically significant and the memorial is socially and aesthetically significant.
The reserve is historically significant (Criterion A) as a recreational focus and source of identity for the community at Calivil since its inception. The memorial is socially significant (Criterion G) because of the value placed on it by the local community. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a prominently situated and surprisingly ostentatious structure of its kind for this small farming community, comparing in this respect with the memorial at Mologa. Recommendations It is recommended that the memorial be included in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Ray Smith, Caretaker, Calivil Reserve Research undertaken by Marj Boyd, local resident
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jul 2000 Loddon Heritage Study C5 Place Abandoned farm house
Formerly
Address Prairie West Road Calivil
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref.
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Associated with mature trees. No photograph as site is remote from road.
History
Thematic Context
Statement of Appears to be the last remaining early house of some aesthetic distinction in the locality. Significance
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Assessed by: Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study J1 Place Four Posts hotel J1 Formerly
Address Loddon Valley Highway Jarklin
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. approx.665817 Wedderburn Kinypanial 7625-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A substantially rebuilt gable roofed hotel with presumed 1950s brick cladding to the exterior and with windows of the same date. Inside, the bar room has been reconstructed but it is understood the residential section may contain elements of the post 1905 building.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Low. Two mature Moreton Bay fig trees and dam associated.
History Believed to have been originally a stop-over for the coach and mail route to Kerang, the Four Posts Hotel at Jarklin was built in 1861-2 (?) There were during this period many hotels on the Kerang coach route including several at Yarrayne, and others at Bears Lagoon and Durham Ox. In 1905, the hotel, and accompanying post office and residence burnt to the ground in a fire. Specifications for a new hotel building noted a two gable and hipped galvanised iron roof covering six rooms (including two bedrooms); exterior weatherboarding; the excavation of a cellar; brick interior and chimneys; interior lime washed walls in the bathroom and pantry, and lath and plaster throughout the remainder of the building; pine ceilings and floors; four panelled doors; and windows with coloured glass.
An auction notice for the sale of the Four Posts Hotel in 1962 described the hotel as a ‘single story building comprising 6 bedrooms, dining room, bar, 2 bar parlors, ladies lounge, night cupboard and servery, kitchen store room, bathroom shower recess, laundry and double garage. Ten acres freehold land. Post office 10 x 12 attached’.
The Four Posts continues to operate today; large Moreton Bay Figs evidence the use of the site as a stopover for coach travel from the 1860s.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11 feeding people. 3.11.5 Context Retailing foods and beverages.
Statement of The present Four Posts hotel on the Loddon Valley Highway at Jarklin has been Significance substantially rebuilt since the erection of a hotel here after the fire of 1905 that burnt the original four Posts hotel to the ground. The site has historic significance.
The site has historic significance (Criterion A) as a known hotel site on the Kerang coach route along which there were known to have been many hotels and taverns during the mid Victorian period. This significance is recalled by the mature Moreton Bay figs and possibly by the dam alongside as a source of water. Today the place is rare to the extent that is a confirmed early hotel site on this route, recalling the days before the arrival of the railway in 1883. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over the removal of trees.
References Sources: Documents held by East Loddon Historical Society, no source. R. J. Cole Collection of Hotel Records, SLV.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study J2 Place Mining head frame
Formerly
Address Loddon Valley Highway Jarklin
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 669902 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Presumed not to have been used for mining purposes at this location. No photograph as site remote from road.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study DO1 Place School building (closed)
Formerly Durham Ox School no. 1483
Address Boort - Pyramid Road Durham Ox
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 626980 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A standard type 22 single classroom timber framed school building of the Great War period with lean to section on one side. The hipped roof is corrugated iron clad with gablets at the ridge ends and there is an overpainted brick chimney. The standard multipaned windows characteristic of the design are in situ.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, car port addition to one side.
History At the crossroads of Boort and Swan Hill Roads, Durham Ox was a flourishing town in the 1870s. It consisted of a post office, two hotels, a courthouse, a National Bank, a police station, and numerous shops. It was also the administrative centre for the Tragowel Plains Trust. The construction of the railway line to Pyramid Hill in 1883, however, led to the gradual decline of the township.
Durham Ox School opened in January, 1875 in leased premises of two rooms previously used as a store and post office. In 1876, a portable wooden building with two rooms attached for teacher’s quarters was erected on the present site of 5 acres. In 1879, with increasing enrolments, a partition was removed to enlarge the school building. A verandah was added in 1898 and the design prepared for the present building in October, 1914. Construction commenced in January, 1915 and the new building was available for classes in 1916. The former school building was removed from the site.
Over the years, trees were planted on the site by the students of the school; the peppercorns that grow on the boundary today may represent the remnants of these plantings.
The school closed in 1970.
The building is currently used as a private residence.
Thematic 6. Educating. 6.2 Establishing schools. Context Statement of The former Durham Ox State School No. 1483 was opened in 1916 and closed c. 1970. Significance It is situated in Durham Ox on the Boort Pyramid Road and was designed by S.C. Brittingham, when G.W. Watson was chief architect of the Victorian Public Works Department. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the principal centre of education in the community since 1916 and as a surviving public building in this once strategically located township. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Blake, L. J. (ed.) Vision and Realisation: A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria, Volume 2. Education Department of Victoria, Melbourne, 1973, p. 478 Ministry of Housing and Construction (Historic Buildings Branch): Survey of Historic Government Schools in Victoria.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study DO2 Place Durham Ox Inn
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Address Pyramid - Boort Road Durham Ox
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 625982 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An early Colonial vernacular two storeyed villa formed building having a dominant corrugated iron clad hipped roof with fretted brackets to the façade which is symmetrical about a central entry, the windows being double hung multi-paned with rubbed brick voussoirs. The hipped roof is formed by two wings seen from the rear which also has a symmetrical treatment about the centrally located back door. The layout of rooms within is symmetrical about a central hallway and staircase. There are timber shingles underneath the present roof cladding and it is understood an earlier posted verandah has been removed. The decorative painted scrollwork above the front door is unusual and based on original evidence.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High. Associated mature lemon scented gum.
History Duck Swamp station was taken up as a 115,000 acre cattle and sheep station by Edward Argyle (and later Abraham Booth) in 1843. Duck Swamp station became the nucleus of a township with the building of a two storeyed, 12 roomed inn and store to cater for travellers and Cobb & Co. passengers in 1848. The second storey contained divided walls which were folded back to make a ball room. The Durham Ox Inn, named after the Durham Ox Inn at Heage in Derbyshire, England, is referred to in Frederic Godfrey’s (of Boort station) journal of November 30th, 1849:
We swam our horses over the Major’s line, and then put Mr. Gregory on the road to Booth and Argyle’s inn, across the Serpentine.
The first licensee was John Hemingway, followed two years later by William Wood.
Extensive post and rail stock yards with a viewing walkway were built between the inn and the homestead to cater for the buyers who attended cattle and horse sales. The station was renamed Durham Ox Station and became well known for its strain of Durham cattle and the station stock brand ‘O.X.’. Argyle also bred draught and light horses.
Durham Ox station remained in the possession of Edward Argyle until 1873.
The first Gordon Shire council meetings in 1885 were held on the top floor of the Durham Ox Inn.
Today, the inn is in private ownership and is being restored. Thematic 3.7 Moving goods and people. Context 3.7.3 Moving goods and people on land. 8.4 Eating and drinking
Statement of The former Durham Ox Inn was built in 1848 at Duck Swamp station by its owners, Significance Edward Argyle and Abraham Booth, to accommodate travellers and coach teams. It is situated on the Boorth Pyramid Road, at Durham Ox. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as possibly the earliest surviving building in the Shire and a rare building of its type in Victoria having been built as an inn attached to a pastoral station prior to the Victorian gold discoveries of 1851. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a substantial Colonial vernacular design demonstrating its stylistic origins in Georgian England and more commonly seen in this country in Tasmania where the eaves overhang is typically considerably less. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register, the National Estate Register and for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over the removal of the lemon scented gum.
References Billis, R.V. & Kenyon, A. S., Pastoral Pioneers of Port Phillip, Stockland, Melbourne, 1972 Drought, M. L., Extracts From the Old Journals Written by Frederic Race Godfrey, of Boort Station, Loddon District of Victoria, 1846-1853, Kent, J. A., The Major’s Vision – and its Fulfilment. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1974, pp.21-3 Monks, Brendan, A Land So Inviting: A History of the Shire of Gordon 1885-1985, Dominion Press, Maryborough, p. 30 Northern Times, 4th June, 1985, p. 11 Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study DO3 Place Former Presbyterian Church
Formerly Presbyterian Church
Address Pyramid - Boort Road Durham Ox
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 625980 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A small timber framed and ripple iron clad Gothic Revival church having a porch and nave both with fretted barges and lancet arched openings including tinted cast glass windows. There is a circular louvred vent in the principal gable end and a steeply pitched corrugated iron roof with cowl type vents. Inside, there is a painted dado with strapped cement sheet upper linings and similarly clad coved ceiling. Remaining fitments include the lectern and hymn board.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, includes post and rail fence with ornamental timber gate posts and sugar gums
History At the crossroads of Boort and Swan Hill Roads, Durham Ox was a flourishing town in the 1870s. It consisted of a post office, two hotels, a court house, a National Bank, a police station, and numerous shops. It was also the administrative centre for the Tragowel Plains Trust. The construction of the railway line to Pyramid Hill in 1883, however, led to the gradual decline of the township.
The Presbyterian Church was a joint church built with the Church of England. Built by Mr Sheridan of Durham Ox for a sum of £178 10s., it was opened in 1877 by Bishop Thornton of Ballarat. Later in the same year the church became solely Presbyterian.
In 1922, the church building was blown down in dust storm. A new Presbyterian Church building opened in January, 1925, and was dedicated by Reverend W. Evans. It housed the original pulpit from the former church building. The new building was designed by Mr C. D. Graham, Shire Engineer, and built by Mr R. Muir. It has since been closed and was sold by the Church in 1999.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6. Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The former Presbyterian Church at Durham Ox is situated on the Boort Pyramid Hill Significance road and was opened in January, 1925, to a design of the Gordon Shire engineer, Mr. C.D. Graham. It was built by R. Muir. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Presbyterian worship at Durham Ox since 1925 and is indirectly expressive of the Church's presence in the district since 1877. It is important also as a surviving public building in this once strategically located township. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) for its use of ripple iron cladding which was invariably a popular building material where suitable local building materials were scarce and transport costs were considerable. The association with Shire engineer, C.D. Graham, author of several building designs in the former Shire of Gordon including the Soldiers' Memorial Hall at Boort is of interest. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Pyramid Hill Advertiser, January 16th, 1925 Pyramid Hill and District Historical Society
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study DO4 Place Durham Ox Memorial hall
Formerly
Address Pyramid - Boort Road Durham Ox
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 623980 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A utilitarian public building of conservative design having a shallow pitched corrugated iron clad hipped roof and bagged cement block walls using units of unusual size. The windows are timber framed and louvred.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History At the crossroads of Boort and Swan Hill Roads, Durham Ox was a flourishing town in the 1870s. It consisted of a post office, two hotels, a court house, a National Bank, a police station, and numerous shops. It was also the administrative centre for the Tragowel Plains Trust. The construction of the railway line to Pyramid Hill in 1883, however, led to the gradual decline of the township.
The first hall and Mechanics’ Institute opened in 1918 on this site and were housed in a former Methodist Church building moved from a private property.
By the time the building of the new Memorial Hall began in 1950, Durham Ox consisted only of a church, school, some houses, the old Shire Chambers and a post office-store. Built as a memorial to those men and women who had served in the two World Wars, the official opening of the new Durham Ox Memorial Hall was held in October, 1958 with the holding of a gala ball. Funds for the hall were raised through a government grant and rabbit drives. It was built with local volunteer labour.
The Pyramid Hill Advertiser described the new hall: Substantially constructed of concrete poured en situ, the new hall measures 25 ft x 58 ft including a 10’ 6" stage. An 8 x 10 porch is added at the front, and a kitchen measuring 24’ x 16’ is an addition to the east side of the main building. In recent weeks the Shire Council has graded and surfaced the road and paths to the hall with excellent tennis and cricket playing fields.The rebuilding of the hall will fill a very desirable and important need. Inside the hall has been tastefully painted, the ceiling colour chosen being flamingo pink, the walls cream and sea-crest green for the doors and seating.
Based on a hall at Redbank, the Memorial Hall was designed by architect and former Shire Engineer, Mr C. D. Graham.
The hall is still used today by the local community. Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.5 Forming associations. 8.8 Context Remembering the fallen.
Statement of The Memorial hall at Durham Ox is situated on the Boort - Pyramid Hill road and was Significance built in 1958 to the design of architect and former Shire Engineer, Mr C. D. Graham. It is of historic interest.
It is of historic interest as a comparatively recently built public building in the township erected during its period of decline. It is exceptionally substantial for buildings of its type and situation, due in part to its recent date of construction. The association with Shire engineer, C.D. Graham, author of several building designs in the former Shire of Gordon including the Soldiers' Memorial Hall at Boort is of interest. Recommendations Not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme on account of its comparatively recent date and utilitarian appearance.
References Pyramid Advertiser, October 22nd & November 8th, 1958
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study DO5 Place Flume
Formerly
Address Flume Creek, Pyramid - Boort Road Durham Ox
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 617981 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study B1 Place House
Formerly
Address Pyramid - Boort Road Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 477985 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Red brick farmhouse on outskirts of town. No photo as remote from road.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study B2 Place Western approach road to Boort
Formerly
Address Pyramid - Boort Road Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 474987 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A single row of approximately 29 Kurrajongs interrupted by occasional eucalypts with remnant timber framed and wire mesh tree guards situated on the north side of the Boort-Pyramid road which is elevated as it runs around the northern edge of Lake Boort, thereby affording distant views over the lake.
History The Kurrajong trees on the approach to Boort were planted by Jack Melotte, an employee of the Shire of Gordon, in the early 1950s. Jack was a direct descendant of one of the original selectors of the district, John Valmont Melotte, who arrived in Boort in 1878. Jack was a community-minded citizen who was responsible for the planting and caring of a number of trees throughout the streets of Boort. The Kurrajongs were transplanted as seedlings from a neighbour’s garden to form an avenue along the roadside by Jack, who then took on responsibility for their watering until they were established.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities. Context 4.1 Planning urban settlement.
Statement of The eastern approach to Boort township is aesthetically important. This importance Significance (Criterion E) is derived from the highly distinctive elements of lake and Kurrajong plantation in close juxtaposition which impart a sense of place to Boort.
Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table of the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over tree removal.
References Local resident
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1999 Loddon Heritage Study B3 Place Church of Christ
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Address Victoria Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 447996 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An unusual symmetrical Arts and Crafts Church with flared timber dados, flared gable ended treatment, recessed porch with surmounting lead lit window with the words "Church of Christ" and prominent gable ended vent. The walls above dado height are asbestos cement clad with strapwork.
Inside, sheet linings to the walls have strapwork across the joints and the ceiling is coved with vents and ornamental plaster work. There are varnished screens to the sanctuary and the lights appear to be early. The pews are presumed to be later and there is a recent lobby. There is a galvanised iron lined baptismal bath.
There is a small timber framed hall at the rear with double doors facing south and a fireplace and ridge vent.
Condition: Sound (main building), Medium (hall). Integrity: High, includes crimped wire fence and gates.
History Earliest meetings of the Church of Christ were held at Mysia and in the home of Stanyers of Yando.
The first Church of Christ building in Boort was the church moved from Mysia in 1913. The present building, built and designed by Mr. Edgar Streader, a local builder, was erected in 1927.
A large congregation travelled from Barraport, Barraport West, Leaghur, Catumnal, Yando, Mysia and Wedderburn for the opening in August, 1927. The Boort Standard commented on the interior of the new church: The interior of the building is particularly pleasing to the eye. The lighting system combined the harmonising grey and white of the walls, and a beautifully finished white ceiling, gives it an air of restfulness and content. The assertion was made during the recent mission that Boort possesses one of the prettiest churches in the Commonwealth, of this, after inspection, we have little reason to doubt.
The first minister of the new Church of Christ was Dr. G. H. Oldfield.
With World War II and a period of drought years, the Church faced dwindling congregations. The Church shared a circuit with Pyramid Hill for some years and now conducts its own weekly services. Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6. Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The Church of Christ in Victoria Street, Boort, was built by the local builder, Edgar Significance Streader, to his design, in 1927. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a centre of worship for members of the Church of Christ at Boort since 1927 and recalls the presence of this Church in the township since at least 1913. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) for the manner in which it demonstrates Arts and Crafts treatments, the flared dados and gable end, porch, lead lit work and gable end vent being the principal contributory elements which have been combined to create an unusual design. The survival of the rear hall contributes to the cultural values of the place since halls of this type have always constituted an important part of the social and worshipping life of a parish. The origins of this building may also be of importance. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table of the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Boort Standard, 4th August, 1927 Ivan Streader, local builder Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, pp. 167
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jan 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B4 Place Boort Railway Station
Formerly
Address Victoria Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 449999 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A formerly representative country town station complex consisting of the following elements: - the station building and platform,van goods shed, mens' closets, cart dock, silos, semaphore signals and former station master's house.
The station building is a standard Boom period timber framed building of its type with posted verandah, now altered and having a north facing verandah protecting the booking window and an enlarged office with public counter and small waiting room. Distinguishing timber ornamentation has been applied to the verandahs which have heavily chamfered posts with capitals, chamfered brackets, diagonally lined soffit and and end curtain boards. The gable ends are also enriched with curtain boards and king post motifs whilst the window architraves and sills are chamfered and bracketed respectively. The linings are timber throughout and there is a stuccoed chimney to the fireplace in the office. The nameboard is a rare surviving large timber board with raised metal letters. Inside, alterations are extensive. The platform has been rebuilt but retains its full length. The van goods shed, until recently a two door structure, has been reduced in size to a single door shed and is a standard timber framed gable roofed structure of its type. To the north, the mens' closets have been presumably rebuilt at different times and are standard timber framed corrugated iron clad structure of their type. The cart dock, now overgrown, is longer than usual. There is a standard concrete silo group and a metal clad silo and the yard is protected by standard semaphore signals. The station master's residence (DR 1054) is a standard single fronted symmetrical timber framed cottage contemporary with the station building. There are tri-partite windows either side of the entry, later turned timber posts and window hoods. The front garden slopes to the railway line and retains mature palms.
There is a steeply sloping pathway in ruinous condition connecting the station building with the street system of the town.
Condition: Medium to Unsound (railway buildings), Sound (station master's house). Integrity: Medium, station building altered, goods shed removed, van goods shed rebuilt and part demolished, lamp room demolished, water tower removed.
History The area of Boort township was initially part of the Boort run taken up in 1846 by Henry Godfrey and Thomas Bear. The focus of a white settlement known as South Boort began on Wedderburn Road with the establishment of a changing-post for Cobb and Co. and associated hotel, wine shop and general store in the 1860s. With renewed selection of land in the region in the early 1870s came the surveying of a new township site c1874 near Boort Lake at Bald Hill. The township thus shifted north and became known as Boort.
With the arrival of the railway in Boort from Korong Vale in 1883, tenders were called in August of that year for the construction of an engine shed and ashpit at Boort Railway Station. A further tender for the building of a goods shed and platform at Boort was awarded to Messrs. Butcher and Blackburn for a sum of £713 9s. 10d. in September, 1883. Tenders for another station building were called for in July, 1886.
The construction of the railway resulted in a shift of focus for the Boort township. The timber buildings which housed businesses in Victoria Street were burnt fell into disrepair as the building of the rail line in 1883 prompted the move of the commercial area into Godfrey Street.
The railway station served as an important centre of the farming community. As well as operating passenger services, in the boom years of the 1950s, outward traffic included wheat, wool and livestock and inward traffic included super phosphate and general goods. Although rail passenger services have been reduced to a road coach service three times a week, Boort continues to operate as an important grain collection site. Its underground conveyor belt and large steel and concrete silos continue to be used for this purpose . The station building itself was closed on 21st. May, 1977.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people Context on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of The railway station at Boort was opened with the line in 1883 and the station building of Significance 1886 and station master's house are standard designs of the period prepared by the Railways Department at a time when G.W. Sims was the chief draughtsman. The complex is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (criterion A) as a temporary terminus for the Robinvale railway and as a gateway for passengers and goods traffic to Boort from 1883 until the Post War era, its continuing diminished role as a grain handling centre representing an important continuation of its historic purpose into the present era. The buildings are important for their capacity to demonstrate the high standards of design and construction characteristic of the era during which the Railways were controlled by three commissioners headed by Richard Speight. The complex is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a now rare surviving example of a standard timber framed station building and detached residence, distinguished by the extent and nature of its ornamentation at the State and national levels. It compares with extant similar buildings at Pyramid Hill, Glengarry, Goorambat, Lyonville and Wycheproof. The complex has some technical importance (Criterion F) on account of the surviving semaphore signals, once commonplace throughout the country railway network but now becoming increasingly rare. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table of the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over paint colours.
References Lewis, Miles, Australian Architectural Index, 1977, SLV Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, p. 189. Andrew Ward: site visit: 15th. June, 1980.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jan 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B5 Place House
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Address 110 Lake View Street North Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 453997 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A picturesque Arts and Crafts influenced brick and rough cast bungalow with cross ridged gable wing, recessed porch with archway, window bay, south facing porch with round arched opening and half timbered gable end with shingled apex.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, flower box removed, later roof tiles.
History The series of good farming years in the 1920s had a significant impact on the development of the residential area in Boort. In 1922, notice of 124 town allotments comprising ‘splendid high blocks’ for auction in the Kiniry Estate, named after Cr. T. B. Kiniry, a well known racing identity, was distributed as far as Melbourne.
A number of substantial houses in the Arts and Crafts architectural style of the times was subsequently built during the 1920s for mostly retired farmers.
The Boort Standard reported that: The residential quarter that is springing up at the foot of the Hill has been made attractive by the fine type of residence that is being built there. As well, business houses in the town have been vastly improved to meet increasing trade.
This house was built for a Mr Jones in 1924-5 and was one of the first homes built as part of the Kiniry Estate.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of The house situated at no. 110 Lake View Street North, Boort, was built in 1924-25 for a Significance Mr. Jones. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to demonstrate an aspect of the township's prosperity during the Inter War period, the houses built at this time near the base of the hill forming a discrete area of comparatively substantial homes that collectively help establish the township's identity and are directly linked with the sale of the Kiniry Estate. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an especially representative example of the houses erected following the subdivision of the Kiniry Estate, the use of Arts and Crafts elements and their picturesque juxtaposition being highly characteristic and comparing with houses at 31 King Street and along Lake View Street. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table of the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Mr Ivan Streader, local builder
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jan 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B6 Place House
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Address 108 Lakeview Street North Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 453997 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A picturesque Arts and Crafts influenced brick and rough cast bungalow with transverse gable and shady pillared verandah across the façade having a gable ended treatment protecting the front door with symmetrical timber louvres and flared weatherboard clad apex. There are double doors to the vestibule in the Arts and Crafts mode and a red brick dado.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History The series of good farming years in the 1920s had a significant impact on the development of the residential area in Boort. In 1922, notice of 124 town allotments comprising ‘splendid high blocks’ for auction in the Kiniry Estate, named after Cr. T. B. Kiniry, a well known racing identity, was distributed as far as Melbourne.
A number of substantial houses in the Arts and Crafts architectural style of the times were subsequently built during the 1920s for mostly retired farmers.
The Boort Standard reported that: The residential quarter that is springing up at the foot of the Hill has been made attractive by the fine type of residence that is being built there. As well, business houses in the town have been vastly improved to meet increasing trade.
As part of the Kiniry Estate, this brick house was designed by the Ballarat and Melbourne based architects Clegg and Morrow for Mr T. A. Gawne, the local chemist, in 1928-9.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of The house situated at no. 108 Lakeview Street North, Boort was built to the design of Significance architects Clegg and Morrow in 1928-29. It is aesthetically significant. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a residence designed by architects Clegg and Morrow in the established Californian Bungalow style having the low slung horizontal proportions characteristic of the style as it was interpreted in Victoria's harsh inland climatic conditions. The shady verandah extending across the entire façade is the dominant feature, incorporating the chalet roof form characteristic of the Bungalow. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table of the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Ivan Streader, local builder Lewis, Miles, Australian Architectural Index, 1977, SLV
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B7 Place St. Patricks Catholic Church
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Address Lake View Street North Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 453997 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative Catholic Gothic Revival Inter-War parish church in red brick with cement dressings. Ornamentation includes hood moulds with crosses above the doors, rose window incorporating the letters SP with surmounting diaper treatment to the gable apex and an apsidal end.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, later additions at the rear.
History Catholic services were held in homes and halls in the district from 1865 by priests visiting from Inglewood, and from 1876, St. Arnaud.
The first church, a wooden building, was built in Boort in the 1890s.
A new building was erected in the 1920s with funds raised largely through a Queen Competition. The church was designed by J. and B. Keogh of Melbourne and built by E. Booth and Sons at a cost of £3302 5s. in 1927. The brick Gothic-style church was opened on New Year’s Day in 1928 by His Lordship Bishop Foley of Ballarat. Alterations were made to the vestry c1987.
The former weatherboard church was purchased by a local builder and shifted for use as a workshop at the rear of the house on the corner of Lake View Street North and King Street.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The Catholic Church of St. Patrick situated on Lake View Street North, Boort,was built in Significance 1927 and opened on New Year's Day, 1928. It was designed by the Melbourne architects, J. and B. Keogh and built by E. Booth and Sons. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Catholic worship at Boort since 1928, recalling the role of the Catholic Church at Boort from as early as 1865 and on this site from the 1890s. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a representative church of its period, picturesquely situated on the slopes of the hill overlooking the houses of the Kiniry Estate. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table of the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Frank Boyle, local resident Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, p. 158
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jan 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B8 Place House
Formerly
Address Cnr. Lake View St North & Kiniry St Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 453996 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A timber framed Arts and Crafts influenced Californian Bungalow with weatherboard dado, asbestos cement linings and half timbered gable end incorporating a louvred vent. A timber posted verandah to the façade and King Street elevation is terminated by a projecting wing. The corrugated iron roof is hipped with tapered rough cast chimneys.
The former Catholic Church at the rear has a cruciform front section with fretted barges and lancet arched openings and a rear nave to which additions have been made. Later signwriting, now faded, reads "Office" and "Plans ready Estimates Given Satisfaction Assured".
Associated elements include palms, picket fence and original posts, fence line and gates belonging to the Kiniry estate.
Condition: Sound, maintenance needed for former timber church. Integrity: High.
History The series of good farming years in the 1920s had a significant impact on the development of the residential area in Boort. In 1922, notice of 124 town allotments comprising ‘splendid high blocks’ for auction in the Kiniry Estate, named after Cr. T. B. Kiniry, a well known racing identity, was distributed as far as Melbourne.
A number of substantial houses in the Arts and Crafts architectural style of the times were subsequently built during the 1920s for mostly retired farmers.
The Boort Standard reported that: The residential quarter that is springing up at the foot of the Hill has been made attractive by the fine type of residence that is being built there. As well, business houses in the town have been vastly improved to meet increasing trade.
This house was built and designed by local builder Mr Edgar Streader in 1924-5 as his family home. Mr Streader arrived in the district in 1913 as an apprentice to Mr H. Bishop. He went on to design and build a number of residences and public buildings in Boort.
The house continues today in his family’s ownership. Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of The house at the corner of Lake View Street North and King Street, Boort, was designed Significance and built by the successful local builder, Edgar Streader, as his family home in 1924-25. The former Catholic Church was built in the 1890s and is understood to have been re- located to its present poition following construction of the present St. Patrick's Church nearby in 1927. The complex is historically and aesthetically significant.
The house is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to demonstrate an aspect of the township's prosperity during the Inter War period, the houses built at this time near the base of the hill forming a discrete area of comparatively substantial homes that collectively help establish the township's identity and are directly linked with the sale of the Kiniry Estate. This house is especially significant in this respect since it was designed and built by Edgar Streader who constructed other houses in the town along with the Church of Christ (1927). It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an especially representative example of the houses erected following the subdivision of the Kiniry Estate, the use of timber dados and strapwork in conjunction with asbestos cement sheeting being highly representative of the period and the Californian bungalow style. This significance is enhanced by the intact nature of the complex of buildings and structures on the site.
The former Church is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to recall the early days in the life of the Catholic Church at Boort from the 1890s until 1927 and also as the centre of Edgar Streader's highly successful design and building practice which has endowed Boort with a number of distinguishing buildings. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table of the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Ivan Streader, local builder
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jan 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B9 Place House
Formerly
Address 21 King Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 454995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A symmetrical single fronted timber framed cottage with timber posted verandah and cast iron lace frieze, hipped corrugated iron clad roof and verandah gablet giving emphasis to the front door. There is a lean to addition at the rear.
Condition: medium, maintenance needed. Integrity: Lean to addition on west side, cypress hedge and presumed Inter-War period front gate.
History The series of good farming years in the 1920s had a significant impact on the development of the residential area in Boort. In 1922, notice of 124 town allotments comprising ‘splendid high blocks’ for auction in the Kiniry Estate, named after Cr. T. B. Kiniry, a well known racing identity, was distributed as far as Melbourne.
A number of substantial houses in the Arts and Crafts architectural style of the times were subsequently built during the 1920s for mostly retired farmers.
The Boort Standard reported that: The residential quarter that is springing up at the foot of the Hill has been made attractive by the fine type of residence that is being built there…As well, business houses in the town have been vastly improved to meet increasing trade.
As part of the Kiniry Estate, it is believed that this house, of an earlier Federation design than those of the predominantly Arts and Craft style that surround it, was shifted in from Bendigo in the 1920s.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of The house at no. 21 King Street Boort is understood to have been relocated from Significance Bendigo to its present site during the 1920s following the subdivision and sale of the Kiniry Estate. It is aesthetically significant.
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an unusual house on account of its architectural style in the predominantly Inter War Kiniry Estate, the verandah treatment with central gablet being highly representative of the late 1890s and immediate Post Federation villa as seen in Bendigo today. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table of the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Ivan Streader, local builder
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jan 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B10 Place "Capri"
Formerly
Address 29 King Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 454995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A streamlined Moderne cream brick terra cotta tiled hip roofed villa distinguished by its semi-circular projecting wings with rendered sills and pelmets, steel framed windows and name "Capri". There are tapestry bricks to the capping course of the projecting wings which have curved parapets giving emphasis to their sweeping forms. The approach to the front door consists of curved steps leading to a recessed porch and there is an attached garage along the east side.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, including fence and wrought iron gates.
History The series of good farming years in the 1920s had a significant impact on the development of the residential area in Boort. In 1922, notice of 124 town allotments comprising ‘splendid high blocks’ for auction in the Kiniry Estate, named after Cr. T. B. Kiniry, a well known racing identity, was distributed as far as Melbourne.
A number of substantial houses in the Arts and Crafts architectural style of the times were subsequently built during the 1920s for mostly retired farmers.
The Boort Standard reported that: The residential quarter that is springing up at the foot of the Hill has been made attractive by the fine type of residence that is being built there… As well, business houses in the town have been vastly improved to meet increasing trade.
This house, set amidst houses of predominantly the Arts and Crafts style, is set apart by its more contemporary design. It was built for retired farmer Alfonso Williamson in the early 1950s by Stan Kim, a local bricklayer.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of The house at no. 29 King Street, Boort, called "Capri", was built in the 1950s for the Significance retired farmer Alfonso Williamson, by Stan Kim, a local bricklayer. It is aesthetically significant.
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an exceptional though somewhat belated example of the Streamlined Moderne style, being unique in Boort and demonstrating some of the hall marks of the style with its use of sweeping curved elements. The Post War influence of the cream brick suburban villa is also evident and impacts on the architectural character of the place which is enhanced by its rarity (criterion B) and intact state. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table of the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Ivan Streader, local builder
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jan 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B11 Place "Morryed"
Formerly
Address 31 King Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 454995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A substantial Arts and Crafts influenced tuck pointed brick Californian Bungalow with dominant gable ends with asbestos cement sheeting, strapwork and lattice vents to the apexes, verandahs to all sides incorporating tessellated walks, faceted window bays and dribbles to the chimneys. The verandah posts demonstrate Arts and Crafts motifs and the upper sashes to the windows have diamond pattern lead light work.
The fence is contemporary and characteristic of villas of the day.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History The series of good farming years in the 1920s had a significant impact on the development of the residential area in Boort. In 1922, notice of 124 town allotments comprising ‘splendid high blocks’ for auction in the Kiniry Estate, named after Cr. T. B. Kiniry, a well known racing identity, was distributed as far as Melbourne.
A number of substantial houses in the Arts and Crafts architectural style of the times were subsequently built during the 1920s for mostly retired farmers.
The Boort Standard reported that: The residential quarter that is springing up at the foot of the Hill has been made attractive by the fine type of residence that is being built there…As well, business houses in the town have been vastly improved to meet increasing trade.
This home, designed by builder and bricklayer Mr Isberg of Bendigo, was built for John and Elizabeth Boyle in 1925-6. The home has had some internal alterations made to it and is now in the ownership of the third generation of Boyles.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of "Morryed" at no. 31 King Street, Boort, was built in 1925-26 for John and Elizabeth Boyle Significance to the design of the builder and bricklayer, Mr. Isberg of Bendigo. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to demonstrate an aspect of the township's prosperity during the Inter War period, the houses built at this time near the base of the hill forming a discrete area of comparatively substantial homes that collectively help establish the township's identity and are directly linked with the sale of the Kiniry Estate. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an especially representative example of the houses erected following the subdivision of the Kiniry Estate, the use of Arts and Crafts elements in conjunction with the Bungalow form being highly characteristic and comparing with houses at 108 Lake View Stret North and 31 King Street. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table of the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Frank Boyle, local resident
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jan 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B12 Place Boort State School No. 1796
Formerly
Address King Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 456996 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Associated peppercorn
History The original Boort State School 1796 opened in 1877 on a site of 2 acres in an old-style portable building with two rooms attached for teacher’s quarters. It was described as ‘perched on the side of a bald sand hill in a very exposed position.’ It only operated half- time from 1878 until 1881 when it became full-time. Enrolments grew with the building of the railway to Boort and tenders were called for a new wooden building. A tender of £335 from John Morgan was accepted in March, 1884. Overcrowding in 1891 from an enrolment of 80 students resulted in the local mechanics’ institute being used as an additional room from 1892 until 1902 when another room was added to the state school. The school also conducted higher elementary classes until the Boort High School opened in 1963.
Thematic Context
Statement of Significance
Recommendations
References Blake, L. J. (ed.) Vision and Realisation: A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria, Volume 2. Education Department of Victoria, Melbourne, 1973, p. 501 Lewis, Miles, Australian Architectural Index, 1977, SLV Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study B13 Place Uniting Church complex
Formerly
Address Station Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 449996 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A simply stated Post War parish church using geometric forms to which emphasis has been given through the choice of materials. The gable roofed form incorporates a glazed wall facing Station Street with brick end walls subdivided by presumed structural elements, the north facing end wall incorporationg a cross and the words "Boort Uniting Church" in its design. There is a free standing concrete bell tower linked with the main church by a simply stated concrete paved courtyard with brick retaining walls addressing Station Street.
At the rear a timber framed Arts and Crafts influenced Gothic Revival former church with strapwork to the main gable end incorporates lancet arched motifs. There is a side porch with lead lit window incorporating the words "Catumnal Methodist Church 1934". The windows generally are lancet arched and lead lit. Inside, the walls and ceiling have sheet linings with strapwork, the roof profile having sloping sides following the angle of the roof. There is an honour roll and marble wall plaques recalling figutres in the life of the church prior to 1934. The doors have lancet shaped panels.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History The first Methodist services were conducted as part of the Inglewood circuit from the mid-1870s. A church building was erected in Boort in 1881 after the school building became too small for services.
A new brick Methodist church was built in Boort in 1958 by Don Hock of Bendigo and the former Catumnal Methodist church building, built in 1934 by A. P. Dunne, was transported to the site for use as a Sunday school hall.
In 1977, the Methodist and Presbyterian churches combined to form the Uniting Church. However, in recent years the congregations of each church in Boort have returned to using their respective buildings.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship. Statement of The former Methodist Catumnal Church, now the Uniting Church hall, was built in 1934 Significance and subsequently relocated to the present site at Station Street, Boort. The present Uniting Church was built in 1958 by Don Hock of Bendigo. The buildings have historic and aesthetic significance.
The former Catumnal Methodist Church is historically significant (Criterion A) for its connection with the Catumnal district to the west of Boort and recalls the dependance of local communities on the provision of facilities close at hand prior to the widespread use of motor cars. The present Uniting Church building, bell tower and courtyard are aesthetically significant (Criterion E) and well resolved ecclesiastical structures of their day demonstrating the dramatic use of the steeply pitched roof and geometric forms characteristic of other churches of the time including Parndana Catholic Church (South Australia), St. Matthews Anglican Church, Townsville, Queensland, and Mormon churches in Blackburn and Adelaide (1957 and 1958). Within Boort, this building compares closely with the St. Andrews Anglican church. It is important also for its substantially intact state. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table of the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Reg Turner, local resident Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, pp. 160-5
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jan 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B14 Place Post Office and memorial
Formerly
Address 75 Godfrey Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 450995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A prominently situated Inter War post office conforming to a standard design of the Commonwealth Department of works and railways but having a small clock tower as a distinguishing element. With this exception, the design is symmetrical about the public space which has a parapet and a raised panel for the words "Boort Post Office". There are flanking pavilions, the eastern corner pavilion forming the entry porch with flat arched openings facing Godfrey and Station Streets. Visual emphasis is given to the pavilions with rustications, limited use of cement work and flat roofs, the greater part of the structure having a terra cotta tiled hipped roof. The small clock interprets campanile forms and has raised panels, the southern face accommodating the clock. The building is set back from the front alignment so as to enhance its presence in the street, thereby maintaining a long established tradition for post offices.
The memorial commemorates the participation of the young men of the district in the First and Second World Wars. It is a dressed granite structure with a lower stage, tapered central stage with honour rolls and a surmounting figure of a soldier in marble, standing at ease with his rifle butt at his feet.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, original fence surrounding memorial removed.
History The first post office was opened in the old Boort township in 1874. Petitions for the building of a courthouse and new post and telegraph office were sent by Boort residents to the Public Works Department in 1888. A brick post office with living quarters was subsequently erected in 1890 at a cost of £1,974.
On Armistice Day, November 11th, 1921, the Soldiers’ Memorial was unveiled by the Earl of Stradbroke. Made by Messrs. H. B. Corben and Sons for a cost of £700, the memorial consisted of a marble figure of a soldier on a granite pedestal. The Boort Progress Association worked hard to ensure the unveiling celebrations, planned to coincide with the Boort Show, ran smoothly. The statue compares closely with those manufactured by monumental masons Lodge Bros of Melbourne whose series of statues of a soldier at attention, with arms reversed and as a light horseman were used throughout Australia.
In 1923 by the present building was erected as a part of a nation wide building program undertaken by the Commonwealth Department of Works and Railways for the Postmaster-General's Department. It compares closely with the Oakleigh post office (1923), Glen Iris and Fairfield (1923) and with its variants such as Balaclava (1924) and post offices elsewhere in Australia. It was designed and built during H.J. MacKennel's term as works director for the Department of Works and Railways, and whilst Percy Ohm was the director general of works.
The civic pride felt by Boort residents is summed up in this paragraph from a booklet produced for a ‘Back to Boort’ celebration in 1924: A new up-to-date brick post office has been erected, and the new police quarters are a credit to the builders. Were it needed, the fine Memorial to the Soldiers of the district who gave their lives to the defence of the Empire, marks the patriotism of the people of Boort…
Thematic 7. Governing. 7.5 Developing administrative structures and authorities. 7.5.7. Context Providing services and welfare (postal).
Statement of The Boort Post Office was built in 1923 to a standard design of the Commonwealth Significance Department of Works and Railways whilst Percy Ohm was the director general of works. It has been varied by the provision of a small clock tower interpreting campanile forms and is situated at the corner of Godfrey and Station Streets, Boort, where there is a small forecourt occupied by a memorial to the soldiers of the First and Second World Wars. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Government postal services since 1923, indirectly recalling the use of this site for postal services since 1890. Its dominant position in the town centre demonstrates traditional civic design practices wherein public buildings and especially post offices occupied prominent sites imparting character and identity to their communities, the provision of a war memorial in the forecourt to the post office demonstrating an aspect of this practice. This aspect bears on the aesthetic significance of the place (Criterion E). Boort post office is an exceptional example of a standard style seen elsewhere in Victoria and other States to the extent that it uniquely incorporates a clock tower. The design also has aesthetic significance for its capacity to demonstrate the Department's approach to post office design during the early Inter War period, capitalising on the economy of the Georgian Revival style, demonstrated particularly by the use of symmetry and rusticated brickwork. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area, including the war memorial. Recommended also for inclusion on the Australian Heritage Commission Register and the Victorian Heritage Register. References Back to Boort Celebration Committee: "Boort Yesterday and Today", 4.10.1924. Local History Group: "Boort Buildings Survey: A History of Some Buildings of Boort and District", 1986 (unpub).
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B15 Place Railway Hotel
Formerly Railway Terminus Hotel (previous building) Address 84 Godfrey Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 450995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A prominent two storeyed red brick and stuccoed hotel in a Classically derived style at the corner of Godfrey and Station Streets. There is a corner splay and modified two storeyed verandah facing Godfrey Street with a single storeyed section extending around the Station Street elevetion. The brickwork is stuccoed with cement sills and lintels, the residential entry being emphasized by means of a cement archway. Stuccoed enrichment to the parapet facing Godfrey Street includes a central pedimented section with "1914 Railway Hotel" in low relief and pavilions at either end formed by oculi with coupled brackets on either side. The cornice line is broken by the central pediment and raised and a second pavilion has been placed on the corner splay facing Station Street. The westernmost bay of the verandah retains its original decorative fabric which includes the timber frieze and balustrade. There are Art Nouveaux lead lit windows for the bar and parlor facing Godfrey Street. Inside the public rooms have been altered but retain their original forms.
Contion: Sound. Integrity: High, includes two timber seats on the footpath.
History The first hotel on this site was built in the early 1880s by W. Rumble. It was named the Railway Terminus Hotel as Boort was the last stop from 1883 until the line was extended to Quambatook in 1894.
In 1914, the new Railway Hotel was erected on this site, the former hotel having been destroyed some years prior. Designed by architects Messrs. W. Beebe and G. D. Garvin of Bendigo and built by Mr J. B. McCraw of Bendigo for Messrs. Hunter Bros. Prop. Ltd. of Bendigo, it was described by the Boort Standard thus: The building is a very serviceable and handsome one, lending quite a fine appearance to the portion of Godfrey Street opposite the Boort Post Office. It consists of 40 rooms made up of 20 odd bedrooms, sitting rooms, two dining rooms…two parlors, two bathrooms (hot and cold water), kitchen, servery and scullery, sample room, lounge and large hall, billiard room and a large and spacious balcony…The building is a two-story brick structure, having re-inforced concrete foundations, re-inforced with expanded metal (double)…The front under the balcony is tuck pointed. The front elevation of the building is beautifully cemented and coloured…The cost of the building will be in the vicinity of £4,500…
The interior of the building has been substantially altered over the years. It continues to operate as a hotel today. Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11 Feeding people. 3.11.5. Context Retailing food and beverages. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people on land.
Statement of The Railway Hotel was built in 1914 on the site of the original Railway Hotel, known for a Significance period as the Railway Terminus Hotel, at the corner of Station and Godfrey Streets, Boort. It was designed by noted Bendigo architects, Beebe and Garvin and built by Mr J. B. McCraw of Bendigo for Messrs. Hunter Bros. Prop. Ltd., also of Bendigo, It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a drinking place, accommodation house and venue for meetings and entertainment since 1914, indirectly recalling the presence of the earlier Railway Hotel on this site erected at the time of the arrival of the railway to Boort in 1883. Its name and purpose continue to demonstrate the erstwhile functional link between the railway and the hotel, the building itself contrasting with the motels of the motar car era in Boort, located outside of the township centre.
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a prominent and substantially intact Post Federation hotel in a Classically derived style, playing a dominant role in the Godfrey Street streetscape on account of its size and corner location. The parapet ornamentation, verandah and lead lit windows are important contributory elements.
The hotel is important also as an example of the work of Messrs Beebe and Garvin, architects (Criterion H). This noteworthy practice has its origins in that of Vahland and Getzschmann in Bendigo. Important examples of Beebe and Garvin's work in Bendigo include the former Royal Bank at View Point and the former YMCA building in High Street (both erected in 1908), "Denderah" (1910) and "Lansellstowe" (1913). Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Area in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Local History Group (Boort): "Boort Buildings Survey: A History of Some Buildings of Boort and District", 1986. Boort Standard and Quambatook Herald, 1st April, 1915
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B16 Place Shop/Garage
Formerly
Address 63 Godfrey Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 450995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An Inter War period commercial building occupying a triangular site facing the town square and having a posted verandah to the square and Godfrey Street. There are curved rough cast pediments with intervening pilasters and rusticated brick walls and stuccoed corner pilasters facing the square. Original windows and doors are intact. Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, later addition at west end.
History Known locally as ‘Weavers and Sutherlands’, this building was constructed in 1927 by Edwin Streader for Edward Weaver as a stock and station agent and produce store. In later years it was owned by F. A. Hill and Australian Estates. An addition to house a General Motors Holden agency was erected on the west in the 1940s. Elders Pastoral took over the building c1970 and sold wool packs, drenches, dog food, chemicals and farm requisites.
The building remained unused for some years until purchased c1992 for use as offices and to house RACV services. It has recently closed.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of The "Weavers and Sutherlands" building is situated at 63 Godfrey Street, Boort, and Significance was built in 1927 by Edwin Streader for Edward Weaver as a stock and station agent and produce store. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to demonstrate its original function as a stock and station agency and produce store, this building type being characteristic of country towns and contributing to our current understanding of the range of services traditionally provided at Boort and similar centres. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) on account of its very prominent situation facing the town square, the buildings that face it surviving with a high level of integrity and including the post office, Railway hotel and Nixon's Store. "Weavers and Sutherlands" building also survives with a high level of integrity although the present paint colour scheme compromises the aesthetic values of the square. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Area in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Ferguson, Gayle, & Morris, Karen, ‘Boort Buildings Survey’, Boort High School, 1986 Ivan Streader, local builder
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B17 Place Shop
Formerly
Address 66 Godfrey Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 450995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A Post Federation period brick shop with timber posted verandah, Free Style parapet having a pediment formed by opposed volutes and with glazed tile panels and an intact bronze framed shop front manufactured by Duff. There are lead lit upper lights and a lead lit screen to the central ingo. The stall board is tile faced and the verandah soffit has pressed metal linings.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History This shop was built for Miss Claire Morrison in the 1920s as a millinery shop. It was taken over by Miss V. M. Brady in the 1930s, and again changed hands in later years. It was always used as a milliners.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of The former Millinery shop built for Miss Claire Morrison in the 1920s is situated at no.66 Significance Godfrey Street, Boort. It is aesthetically significant. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an ostentatious demonstration of the Edwardian Free Style mode, the shop front being especially distinguished by its lead lit screen. As such it is unique in Boort, its aesthetic values being greatly enhanced by their intact state. The parapet treatment and shop front are the principal distinguishing elements. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Area in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Frank Boyle, local resident Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B18 Place "Foodtown" Supermarket
Formerly Nixons Exchange Store
Address Godrey Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 450995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An Inter War Classically derived Free Style two storeyed store with rebuilt shop windows but a substantially intact and imposing façade above the verandah line. The central pedimented parapet and bracketed cornice surmounts a large cartouche bearing the name Nixons and there are flanking pavilions with rustications and blind openings with fixed vents above the impost moulds, the parapet lines having ox bow shapes. The facings are in stucco and rough cast, a similar treatment returning round the corners of the building for the depth of the pavilion giving it an enhanced presence in the street.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium, sympathetic single storeyed section to west.
History Nixon’s Store, one of three general stores in Boort, was opened in 1896 by George Nixon. It was one of a chain of stores, the first of which was opened by Nixon in a tent on the Inglewood goldfield. His sons Jack, then Cornelius, managed the Boort store, later known as Nixon’s Exchange Store. The store, then timber, was rebuilt in brick in 1922 to incorporate an oil depot. Messrs. Beebe and Garvin were the architects, and Messrs. Hanson and Murdoch the contractors. Materials were supplied by Mr. C. Nixon.
The Northern District Standard reported on the opening of Nixon’s new store: The fine structure is of brick throughout…The front is fitted with handsome plate glass windows, artistically finished with coloured glass and white tiles…The high verandah or awning is of the cantilever type and with no supporting posts…The entrance lobby door is nicely tiled in a design, and the doors are of handsome plate glass with brass fittings and neat leadlights…In the evening the premises are lighted by some three dozen electric lights , including a handsome chandelier…
The store sold grocery and ironmongery items, wine and ales, shoes, stationery, crockery, cutlery, perfumes and soaps.
Nixons changed to selling only grocery lines pre-World War II. Orders were placed with the postman by farming families, parcels made up by staff and delivered by train or horse and cart four days later. A large cellar in the store was used to keep perishables in.
Today the store is occupied by a ‘Foodtown’ Supermarket. Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of The former Nixons Exchange Store is situated at Godfrey Street, Boort and was built in Significance 1924 for Cornelius Nixon and his son. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to demonstrate an aspect of the provision of grocery items in country towns prior to the development of supermarkets in Victoria during the 1950s. It is important also as the principal store of its type in Boort having been established there since 1888. Together with other buildings of the period it demonstrates the economic strength of the township during the Inter War period. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an imposing building in the Classical Free Style and is stylistically unique in Boort on this account.
The building's association with its architects, Beebe and Garvin of Bendigo, is of note (Criterion H), this office producing many noteworthy designs in Bendigo and surrounding areas. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Area in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Local History Group (Boort): "Boort Buildings Survey: A History of Some Buildings of Boort and District", 1986. Adams, Diane & Byrne, Mary, ‘Boort Buildings Survey’, Boort High School, 1986
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B19 Place National Bank
Formerly
Address 100 Godrey Street Boort
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Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A late Victorian Italianate two storeyed bank with stuccoed façade, rusticated lower level with round arched openings and trabeated upper level having Ionic and Tuscan pilasters, the subdivision into bays giving emphasis to the entry. The frieze has "The National Bank of Australasia Limited" in low relief. There is a later sympathetic addition on the west side and rear additions.
Inside, the banking chamber is in situ with a pressed metal ceiling.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High
History The National Bank Boort commenced business on 1st December, 1880, under the management of Mr. W. B. Pleasants in temporary premises situated in the main street of Boort. Tenders were called for a permanent National Bank building in August 1889, a building designed by Mr. G. Jobbins. George Jobbins gained a number of commissions from the Colonial and National Banks. Jobbins’ Northcote National Bank is similar in design to Boort. The Boort National Bank was constructed by Garnat and Co. of Kyneton for £1924.
An article in the Boort Standard and Pyramid Hill Gazette reported in April, 1890 that ‘The new court house and bank are approaching their completion and will add to the appearance of the town.’ Another report in May of the same year labelled the completion of the bank, ‘this handsome and imposing structure’, as ‘another substantial evidence of the progress of our town and district.’ Built of brick, the front of the two-storeyed bank was covered in ‘Portland Cement’ and ‘block jointed with pilasters in the upper storey, capped with handsome mouldings’.
Today, the National Bank is privately owned.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of The former National Bank of Australasia Limited building, now the National, is situated Significance at no. 100 Godfrey Street, Boort and was built to the design of the architect,George Jobbins. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the most imposing of the early banks at Boort and as a banking centre within the community since 1890. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as one of the most prominent late Victorian buildings in Godfrey Street and is representative of the National Bank's work throughout country Victoria late last century. The emphasis given to the entry by means of the subdivision of bays and the break fronted treatment represents a subteIty characteristic of the work of George Jobbins, a prolific Western district architect. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Area in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Boort Standard and Pyramid Hill Gazette, 4th April & 30th May, 1890 Lewis, Miles, Australian Architectural Index, 1977, SLV Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, pp. 81 & 85
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B20 Place Boort Historical Society museum
Formerly Boort Court House
Address Godfrey Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 450995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A standard Victorian Public Works Department court house drawing on Northern Italian Renaissance forms especially including the Lombardic gable treatment with polychromatic brickwork. The arrangement of the building and the façade is symmetrical, imparting dignity to the composition. The principal central court house with high light window is protected by a posted verandah with flanking pedimented terminations in the manner of pavilions marking the entry points to the court house vestibules. The tympana have fretted ornamentation but the presumed acroteria, verandah post capitals and spandrels have been removed. There is a panel beneath the highlight window to the court house reading "Court House" in low relief. Inside, the court house retains its fit out and exposed timber trusses.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, see above. Recent paved courtyard is unsympathetic.
History Petitions for the building of a courthouse and new post office were sent by Boort residents to the Public Works Department in 1888. Designed by Public Works Department architect Samuel Edward Bindley, the erection of Boort’s courthouse was begun in 1889 by contractor Matthias Korten on land excised from the police reserve. Bindley was an architect 2nd. grade with the north-western district of the Victorian Public Works Department in 1889, the working drawings being dated 21st. May, 1889. He had responsibility for identical designs at Nhill, Wycheproof, Natimuk and Warracknabeal designed in 1888-90, identical examples having been erected also at Dimboola(?), St. Arnaud and Mildura (since demolished).
An article in the Boort Standard and Pyramid Hill Gazette reported in April, 1890 that ‘The new court house and bank are approaching their completion and will add to the appearance of the town.’
The Courthouse closed in 1983. Today, the former Courthouse houses the Boort and District Historical Society.
Thematic 7. Governing. 7.5. Developing administrative structures and authorities. 7.5.5. Context Dispensing justice. Statement of The former Boort Court House was designed in 1889 by Samuel Edward Bindley of the Significance Victorian Public Works Department and is situated in Godfrey Street, Boort. The associated police station and stables have been demolished but there is a portable lock- up at the rear of the present police station. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre for the administration of the Colonial court system in the Boort district since 1890. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an exceptional example of a Public Works Department design in the Northern Italian Renaissance Revival mode dapted to suit Colonial conditions, the use of polychrome brickwork, the Lombardic gable motif and a symmetrical arrangement being important contributory elements. The position of the court house in the Godfrey Street streetscape is an imposing one impinging directly on the cultural values of the Area. The removal of the acroteria, capitals and spandrels along with the demolition of the stables and the recent landscaping works detracts from the significance of the building when compared with other examples of the style. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over interior alterations.
References Trethowan, B. :"The Public Works Department of Victoria 1851-1900" v. 2, M.U. Department of Architecture and Building, Research Report 1975. Boort Standard and Pyramid Hill Gazette, 4th April, 1890 Court Houses Report, Historic Places Section, DNRE
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B21 Place Shops
Formerly
Address 96-106 Godfrey Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 450995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Includes T.A. Gawne, Chemist.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study B22 Place Offices
Formerly Bank
Address 136 Godfrey Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 450995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A two storeyed masonry former bank with stuccoed symmetrical façade in the Georgian Revival manner with Arts and Crafts influence. There is a central pedimented section and a concrete balcony, symmetrical chimneys to the terra cotta tiled hipped roof and timber brackets to the deeply overhanging eaves. Emphasis is given to the recessed openings with an imposed chessboard pattern to the margins. Inside, the banking chamber is in situ but there is a recent fitout.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, later addition on west side.
History The Bank of NSW at first operated in Boort from a portion of the Royal Exchange Hotel. A fire in 1928 razed buildings to the ground in the commercial area of Godfrey Street. Subsequently the Boort Standard and Pyramid Hill Gazette on 7th February, 1929 carried an advertisement which called for tenders from ‘Godfrey and Spowers, F.F.R.V.I.A, Registered Architects, McEwan House, Melbourne’ for the building of the Bank of New South Wales. A two storeyed brick bank and residence was opened on the site in 1929.
The bank is now privately owned.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of The former Bank of New South Wales building situated at no. 136 Godfrey Street, Boort Significance was built in 1929 following the fire of 1928 to the design of Melbourne architects, Godfrey and Spowers. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a former bank, demonstrating through its conservative architectural treatment the image of banking in the years immediately prior to the Depression and contrasting with banking methods today. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a prominent two storeyed commercial building in a conservative Classically derived Georgian Revival style, adding stylistic diversity to the streetscape. The association with the prominent firm of Melbourne architects, Godfrey and Spowers, is of interest. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Boort Standard and Pyramid Hill Gazette, 16th August & 27th September, 1932 Helen Storey, local resident Boort Standard and Pyramid Hill Gazette, 7th February, 1929 Boyle, Naomi & Stringer, Michelle, ‘Boort Buildings Survey’, Boort High School, 1986 Monks, Brendan, A Land So Inviting: A History of the Shire of Gordon 1885-1985, Dominion Press, Maryborough, p. 44 Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B23 Place Commercial Hotel
Formerly
Address Godrey Street, corner Lake View Street No Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 450995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A prominent corner hotel with Art Deco ornamentation to the corner splay parapet and balconies to the Godfrey Street and Lake View Street North elevations. The balconies are terminated by hipped roofed pavilions and there is an overpainted face brick plinth treatment to window sill height.
The corner parapet section has a stepped form with a curved canopy surmounting the bar entry and curved corner steps. The canopy has "Commercial Hotel" in wrought iron letters whilst narrow bricks have been used to give emphasis to the door. The balcony railings use Art Deco motifs.
Inside, the main bar is in situ with fire place and brick dado.
History Early maps, c1876, of Boort show the nucleus of a township at the corner of Godfrey and Lake View Streets where Rumble’s Store and King’s Hotel, built by Mr J. King, the son of Kerang’s first doctor, were established. The hotel, a one-storey structure, was used as a depot for Cobb & Co. It is not known when the hotel was renamed the ‘Commercial’, however, at the turn of the century, "The Bendigonian" described the hotel thus: Commercial Hotel, a commodious establishment of 30 rooms. The Commercial Travellers Association of Victoria has selected it as its recognised house in Godfrey Street. Every accommodation for families, a spacious billiard room and a number of other comforts.
It is believed a new hotel was built on the site in 1938 after a fire destroyed the original building. It consisted of a lower floor, divided into two lounges, a bar, kitchen and storage rooms; the second storey consisted of rooms for accommodation. An entry in the Miles Lewis Architectural Index dated January 1938 noted that plans for ‘hotel work’ were being drawn up by D. Cowell Ham; these plans may well refer to the Commercial Hotel.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11 Feeding people. 3.11.5. Context Retailing food and beverages. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people on land. Statement of The Commercial Hotel is situated at the corner of Godfrey Street and Lake View Street Significance North, Boort, and was built in 1938, possibly to the design of D. Cowell Ham. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a drinking place, accommodation house and venue for meetings and entertainment since 1938, indirectly recalling the presence of the earlier King's Hotel on this site erected during the town's formative phase. It is important also as one of the township's two hotels demonstrating accommodation requirements in an age less dependent on the private car. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a very prominent public building at the point of entry to Godfrey Street from the east, the exploitation of Art Deco themes being both representative of the late 30s and the finest example of its type in the main street of Boort. The corner splay, parapet and balcony treatments are contributory elements. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Bendigonian, October 5th, 1899 Documents held by the Boort and District Historical Society Lewis, Miles, Australian Architectural Index, 1977, SLV
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B24 Place Scots Presbyterian Church complex
Formerly
Address Godfrey street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 446995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An unusually richly decorated late Victorian timber church with front porch, lancet arched openings, brackets to the overhanging barge and decorative timber curtains with diagonal timber linings to the king post gable end enrichment. The plan form is T shaped with an apsidal end.
Inside, the walls have painted timber linings and there is a varnished coved timber ceiling, The sanctuary and east transept have archways with plain pilastrated treatments.
The associated hall has a weatherboard dado, asbestos cement linings above and double doors with strapwork to the gable end and a plain cartouche to the façade. Inside, there is a varnished v-jointed timber dado, plaster linings and a plastered coved ceiling.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, later lean to at rear of hall.
History Presbyterian services were conducted in the district from 1876, and in a permanent church building in Boort from 1881. It is believed this building was sold to the Anglican Church c1905 (see history of St. Andrew's Anglican church).
A new wooden Presbyterian church, St. Andrews, was designed and built in 1901 by Mr. A. E. DeGruchy for the sum of £225. The church seated 100 people. A manse, built in 1910, burnt down in 1912, and was rebuilt in later years.
A hall was built in the church grounds, and in 1958 a Memorial Annexe was built at the rear of the church hall to be used as a Sunday school.
The Presbyterian and Methodist churches combined to form the Uniting Church in 1977, however in recent years the congregations have reverted to their former church sites. Scots Presbyterian Church continues to be used today.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship. Statement of The Scots Presbyterian church was built in 1901 to the design of A. E. DeGruchy and is Significance situated in Godfrey Street, Boort, to the west of the railway line. The hall alongside was built subsequently. The complex is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a centre of worship for members of the Presbyterian Church in Boort since 1901 and recalls the presence of this Church in the district since 1876. The church is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) for its highly ornamental timber treatment, which, whilst being once common place on timber churches of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, is now rare (Criterion B). The hall is an aesthetically contributory building on the site on account of its materials and form. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Frank Boyle, local resident Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, pp. 160-5
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B25 Place St Andrews Anglican Church complex
Formerly St. Andrews Church of England
Address Lake View Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 448992 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A distinctive Post War masonry church with dominant gable roof and glazed end wall with leadlight work and cross to the façade. The north side porches and office have a folded plate roof form and there is an associated memorial garden. Inside, there are steel portal frames, face brick walls, plaster ceiling linings and a parquetry floor. The raised sanctuary has a face brick rear wall with a plain light blue central panel, crucifix and table.
The rear timber framed hall in the vernacular Gothic Revival mode has a central porch, lancet openings, oculus vents and chamfered barge. Casement sashes have elegant mullions and transoms giving emphasis to the lancet arched shape. Inside, the walls and coved ceiling have painted timber linings. The corners and north wall are braced and there is an honour roll over the porch door.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History The first Anglican service was held at Boort station woolshed in 1850. A memorial prayer desk inside the present church building is dedicated to Frederic Godfrey, the then owner of Boort station.
The first Anglican church, St. Johns, was built at the former Boort township site. (South Boort began on Wedderburn Road with the establishment of a changing-post for Cobb and Co. and associated hotel, wine shop and general store in the 1860s.) The Church was constructed from timber carted from Wedderburn and services were held in the building until 1898. The building was sold by tender for removal in 1903.
Anglican services were conducted at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Boort on alternate Sundays and the building purchased by the Anglican Church in 1887.
Plans for a new church building were mooted from the 1920s, however it wasn’t until 1959 that the present church was opened and dedicated by Bishop Winter. It was designed by architects Earle and Bunbury and built by D.K. Koch, the foundation stone being laid on 3oth. November, 1958. The financing of the church was made possible by a pledged giving campaign and the generosity of the parishioners in donating all the furnishings. The former weatherboard church is used as the church hall.
150 years of Anglican worship in Boort were celebrated on 8th. October, 2000. Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The present St. Andrews Anglican Church was built in 1958-59 to the design of Significance architects Earle and Bunbury by D.K. Koch. It is situated on Lake View Street, Boort. The hall at the rear served as the church from 1887 until 1959, having been purchased from the Presbyterian Church in Boort. The complex is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Anglican (formerly Church of England) worship in Boort from 1887, recalling that denomination's presence in the Boort district from as early as 1850. The present church is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a well resolved ecclesiastical structures of its time demonstrating the dramatic use of the steeply pitched roof and geometric forms characteristic of other churches of the time including Parndana Catholic Church (South Australia), St. Matthews Anglican Church, Townsville, Queensland, and Mormon churches in Blackburn and Adelaide (1957 and 1958). Within Boort, this building compares closely with the Uniting Church building also erected in 1958. It is important also for its substantially intact state. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, pp. 154-5
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B26 Place House
Formerly
Address 75 Lake View Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 448992 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study B27 Place House
Formerly
Address Lake View Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 448992 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study B28 Place House
Formerly
Address 13 Lake View Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 448992 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study B29 Place House
Formerly
Address Ring Road, Little Lake Boort Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 450983 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A single fronted symmetrical timber cottage with encircling posted bull nosed verandah, bracketed frieze, hipped corrugated iron clad roof and symmetrical chimneys. The verandah posts have been partially replaced with galvanised metal poles and there is an east facing wing with prominent overhanging gable end having fretted spandrels to the brackets and strapwork to the gable end. Inside, there are varnished timber ceiling linings and pressed metal ceilings, dados and wall linings to the central passage and some principal rooms. Patterns demonstrate Art Nouveaux influence and there is an archway to the passage, also in pressed metal. The fireplaces are richly decorated.
Condition: Unsound, urgent maintenance needed. Integrity: High.
History This house is believed to have been built for Mr Barclay, one of the first selectors in the area in the 1870s, c1883 when the railway line was built through Boort. It was later purchased c1905 by Mr Albert Lanyon who bred pure Border Leicester sheep on the property. The house is presently unoccupied.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context
Statement of The house on the Ring Road, facing Little Lake Boort, was built for the selector, Mr. Significance Barclay, c.1883 and was subsequently renovated presumably by Albert Lanyon after his purchase c.1905, the pressed metal linings and rear additions being suggestive of this period. It is aesthetically significant.
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) for its interior pressed metal linings which demonstrate the various applications of this comparatively low cost but very popular system of ornamentation which peaked in its popularity during the first and second decades of the nineteenth century and commonly demonstrated Art Nouveaux influence during the period. This house, is highly representative of the best domestic practice of the time. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over interior alterations.
References Frank Boyle, local resident Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, passim
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B30 Place Sheepwash (abandoned)
Formerly
Address Kinypaniel Creek, at inlet to Lake Boort Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 473964 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description This site consists of a scatter of Murray Pine stumps scarcely above the level of the sandy creek bank when inspected in an area measuring 1.2 metres east-west and 8 metres north-south. The site is located on the east side of the creek bank towards the oultet into the lake.
Condition: Stable. Integrity: low.
History Henry Godfrey took up the vast Boort station in 1846 and proceeded to make changes to the landscape so that it met his needs for its use as a pastoral run. These changes included the building of a number of tanks and the erection of several sheepwashes at available water sources. These remains were presumably built by Godfrey between the years 1846-1850.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.4 Developing primary Context production.
Statement of The presumed site of the abandoned sheepwash at the inlet of the Kinypaniel Creek to Significance Lake Boort was probably built by Henry Godfrey between the years 1842 - 1850. It is historically important.
It is historically important (Criterion A) as a rare surviving site with remains associated with the pastoral era in the Boort distrtict recalling the presence of Henry Godfrey on the Boort run between 1846 and 1871. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study BL2 Place Godfrey's Cutting
Formerly
Address Off Boort-Fernihurst Road West of Bears Lagoon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 570760 Wedderburn-Kinypanial 7625-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A picturesque escavated channel remaining as a water course and bordered by mature red gums. Elements include gate valves with iron gearing within a sawn timber frame, concrete gates to controlthe flow of water and a levee bank. There is a concrete pipe connecting the Loddon River with the Kinypanial Creek. The remains of a timber bridge are situated 40 metres down stream and consist of the log section piles, the super structure having been removed.
History Boort station of 180 square miles was first taken up by Thomas Bear in the late 1830s. In 1846, Henry Godfrey took up the run, and was joined by his brother Frederic in 1847. In 1857, Henry returned to England. Boort station, like many others was badly watered, and the brothers instigated changes to the landscape to ensure a more plentiful supply. One of these changes was the digging of a cutting between Kinypaniel Creek and the Loddon River so that Lake Boort, part of the Boort run, received a more reliable supply. Frederic wrote to his brother in 1850:
I am most concerned about the Swamp [Lake Boort], which dries up each summer, and feel something can and must be done to divert water from the creeks and river near by. The Kinapaniel Creek is a good string of water holes and even runs a little in winter, and is but a short distance from the Loddon River, so I have begun a scheme for a cutting to connect the two and provide permanent water for the Swamp.
By September, 1850 enough rain had fallen for the Loddon River to flood and for the water to reach Lake Boort via the cutting and Kinypaniel Creek.
It is believed that Godfrey used Aboriginal labour for the cutting of the channel which was subsequently named ‘Blackfellows Creek’.
In 1883, with the building of the Kinypaniel Weir, Blackfellows Creek was widened and deepened. An offtake regulator with two screws doors was also installed a short distance from the exit of the Loddon River. The contract for this work was let to Irving and Co. for a sum of £891 13s. 6d.
The cutting today is evidenced by a deep tree-lined depression in which the remains of the offtake regulator and outlet pipes stand. Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.4. Developing primary production. 3.4.1. Grazing Stock.
Statement of The abandoned cutting at the junction of the Loddon River and the Kinapaniel Creek Significance was built by Frederic Godrey commencing in 1850. It is historically and technically important. It is historically important (Criterion A) as a rare structure of its type constructed during the era of pastoral occupation and recalling the presence of the Godfreys on the Boort run from 1846. It demonstrates the pastoralists' need for a constant water supply and is technically important (Criterion F) for its capacity to demonstrate the method used to achieve this end. Subsequent works including the gate valve structures and timber bridge ruins, whilst of a later date, contribute to our ability to interpret the history of this site and are important in this respect. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Fernihurst District History Committee, Reflections From the Kinypaniel: the Early Years of the Fernihurst District, Fernihurst District History Committee, Maryborough, n.d., p. 89 & p. 95 Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, p. 22 Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B32 Place Former Silage Store
Formerly
Address Woolshed Road Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 457967 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A circular red brick store with reinforced concrete lintels to the openings, cement facings to the inside surfaces of the walls and a presumed later timber framed roof.
Condition: Sound (as a ruin). Integrity: Medium.
History I.J. Weaver built this silage store for his dairy, since demolished, c.1900.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.4. Developing primary production.
Statement of The former silage store erected by I. J. Weaver c.1900 is situated in view of Woolshed Significance Road, south-west of Boort. It is of interest as an unusual structure associated with a local dairy. Given the incomplete state of the dairy complex, however, it is not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme. Recommendations Not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Conversation with occupants of nearby house.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Aug 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B33 Place Ruins of farm house
Formerly
Address Whittaker Road Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 426994 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description This place consists of the remains of a bi-chrome brick farmhouse situated on a gentle rise, the south-east corner standing full height and consisting of red body bricks with white dressings. The walls are of 9 inch solid brickwork and the internal surfaces have solid plaster facings. The base walls survive along with twin palm trees marking the former entrance pathway and there are later peppercorns. The white bricks were manufactured by the Brunswick Brick and Tile Co. There is a depression cut into one side possibly denoting a former cellar. Elsewhere, the remains of yards at the rear include sections of low vertical slab fences and the stumps of a presumed shearing shed.
Condition: Stable. Integrity: Low.
History John and Margaret Baines migrated to Australia in 1853 and eventually moved to Wychitella. Sons Thomas and Jim Baines both had property in Boort, and it is believed that these ruins are all that remain of a farmhouse built by one of these brothers. The use of pressed bricks manufactured by the Brunswick Brick and Tile Co. suggests that the house post dates the introduction of the Bradley Craven brick press in 1887 and the formation of the Brunswick Terra Cotta Works in the same year whilst the evidence of architectural style suggests that it was probably built prior to the Depression of 1891.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.4.3 Developing agricultural and Context pastoral industries.
Statement of The ruins of the presumed Baines farmhouse are situated on Whittaker Road, west of Significance Boort and by their appearance may have been built between 1887 and 1891. They are of historic, aesthetic and technical interest. They are of historic interest for their presumed association with the boom years preceding the Great Depression of 1891 and with the Baines family. They are of aesthetic interest as a picturesque ruin in the rural landscape west of Boort. They are of technical interest for their known incorporation of Brunswick Brick and Tile Co. bricks demonstrating the impact of improved methods of brick manufacture at the time in conjunction with improved rail communication. Recommendations Not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme owing to the low level of integrity and representative nature of the place.
References Frank Boyle, local resident Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, p. 43
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2001 Loddon Heritage Study Te1 Place Farmhouse outbuildings
Formerly The Moresi farm
Address Terrapee Cemetery Road Terrapee
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 283956 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A complex of outbuildings and structures with a recent farmhouse, the site of the earlier farmhouse being evident. There is a gable roofed pise wash house, rectangular on plan with timber window and door frames, now out of use. The roof frame is of sawn timber construction and there is a corrugated iron clad roof. Nearby the pise and bush pole framed blacksmith's shop, now disused, retains its forge and implements. The corrugated iron clad gable roof affords ample protection for the pise walls and has been extended at the south end. Inside, the bush pole rafters rest on sawn timber wall plates. There is a rammed earth floor and one of the window heads has collapsed. A disused pise workers' hut, adjoins along with a well, bush pole tank stand, bore, wine vat remains and timber mangers from the stables, now demolished.
Condition: Medium, maintenance required. Integrity: Medium, farmhouse and stables demolished. Includes early olive plantings.
History Land in Terrapee was taken up from 1875 under the provisions of the 1869 Land Act that opened up the entire Colony for selection in 320 acres lots, before and after survey. The good rainfalls of 1871-75 encouraged selectors to take up land in the region of Terrapee, with settlement focussing on the water and timber sources supplied by Lake Marmal. One of the first selectors was Francesco Moresi, a Swiss Italian, who took up several blocks in 1875. This site was originally a selection of 320 acres on which Moresi erected a log cabin. The family arrived on Christmas morning, 1876, by horse and dray from Guildford. Oat and wheat crops were grown in the first years with smaller areas put under olives and grapes. Moresi erected a pise mens' hut and blacksmiths in subsequent years. Wine making was also carried out. The surviving wash house was built more recently by Fred Moresi. More recently and prior to Fred Moresi's retirement, the property was well known for breeding specialised sheep.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.4.3 Developing agricultural Context industries (wheat, oats, grapes, olives). 3.13.1 Building to suit Australian conditions (pise construction).
Statement of The surviiving outbuildings of the former Moresi holding on the Terrapee Cemetery Significance road, Terrapee, were erected following the arrival of the Moresi family on this land in 1876 over a period. They include a pise wash house, smithy, mens' hut and other minor structures and loose items of equipment including forging implements. They have historic and scientific importance. They are historically important (Criterion A) for their capacity to demonstrate the resourcefulness of the first settlers in the area during the 1870's and thereafter not only in terms of their capacity to build using available natural materials but also in terms of their capacity to survive at a distance of approximately twenty kilometres from the nearest township. The remains of vats and the early olive plantings are also important indicators as to early agricultural pursuits especially including those brought to the Colony by Swiss Italian migrants. The place has scientific importance (Criterion C) as a rare surviving (Criterion B) example of pise construction in the Shire, comparing with other less well preserved sites including one on the Boort - Charlton road (Te3) whilst the evidence of early agricultural activity at this location has potential for research. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over outbuildings and interior alterations.
It is also recommended that the owners of the place be notified of this recommendation References because it is understood that the surviving structures and artefacts are under threat of removal.
It is understood that these buildings have been demolished since the site inspection. Fred D. Moresi, grandson of the original owner. Parish Plan
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Mar 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Te2 Place Terrapee Cemetery
Formerly
Address Terrapee Boundary Road Terrapee
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 281937 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative small cemetery with marble and granite headstones characteristic of the late nineteenth century and later periods containing inscriptions dedicated to many of the pioneering families in the district. The Douglas, Poxon, Bertoli, Giblett, Simpson and Coote families are all represented. One of the largest areas of the cemetery is given over to the Moresi family, Swiss-Italian migrants who settled in Terrapee in 1878.
History The Terrapee area saw the arrival of white settlers from the mid-1870s. The Terrapee Cemetery was reserved in 1879. The cemetery, set midst Mallee vegetation, continues to be used today.
Thematic 9.7. Disposing of dead bodies. Context
Statement of The Terrapee cemetery is situated on the Terrapee Boundary Road, Terrapee, and was Significance reserved in 1879. It is historically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) for the record it holds of the settlers from the district. The evidence today is representative of many comparable places in country Victoria. Recommendations Not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme because there is no significant fabric other than the headstones for which conservation controls are warranted.
References Cemetery Inventory, Historic Places Section, DNRE
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Aug 2001 Loddon Heritage Study Te3 Place Farm house ruins
Formerly
Address Boort - Charlton Road Terrapee
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 309974 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description
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Assessed by: Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study LM1 Place Lake Marmal Hall
Formerly
Address Marmal North Road Lake Marmal
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 265968 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A timber framed weatherboard clad hall with lean to addition at the rear and porch at the front. Architectural expression is straight forward, the barges to the gable ends being relieved by small finials, fixed louvre vents in the case of the hall and board readiong "Lake Marmal Memorial Hall". Inside, the walls and ceiling are timber lined and painted. The form of the ceiling is coved and there are diagonal braces at the corners to stabilize the structure. There is also a circular ceiling vent and the bottom chords of the trusses are metal ties. The windows are double hung with glazing bars and the doors to the porch which may be an addition, have a round arched fan light, sheeted over. There are timber bench seats and a stage and table in the hall. A built in cupboard with books presumably belonging to the Mechanics Institute is located on the the stage and appears to be early. There are First and Second World War honour rolls.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, includes suggar gums, gates and gate posts and library of early books.
History Settlers moved to the Lake Marmal area in the 1870s and a township was surveyed, however it was not developed as planned. Settlement focused around the post office and store, and blacksmith shop. The Lake Marmal Mechanics’ Institute Hall was opened in 1898 adjacent to a recreation reserve which came to feature a golf course, cricket pitch and football oval in later years.
The hall was used by Lake Marmal State School 1827 between 1899 and 1938. A new school building was erected in 1938 after the original building burnt down in 1886.
The hall stands today as one of the few reminders of the Lake Marmal settlement. It houses a number of Honour Rolls.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.5 Forming associations. Context
Statement of The Lake Marmal Memorial hall was built in 1898 and is located on the Marmal North Significance road by the recreation reserve overlooking the lake. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the sole surviving non-residential building of the township having been associated with its development and demise since 1898 and having served the community as a recreational and educational resource, functioning for a period also as a school, since that time. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a substantially intact building of its type, comparing with the Laanecoorie hall (1890) but especially noteworthy for the survival of the interior, library of books and bench seats. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over interior alterations.
References Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, pp. 167
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study G1 Place Gredgwin Railway Station: Grain Silos
Formerly
Address Gredgwin East Road Gredgwin
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 361158 Quambatook South 7626-3-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative grain siding of the Wimmera/Mallee region having a standard former Grain Elevators Board triple silo form concrete structure and later metal clad silos served by a single rail siding. There is a receiving shed and weighbridge. The remains of the former station building and associated structures have been erased with the exception of some elevated ground presumed to indicate the position of the platform.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High (silos only)
History The district was originally known as Jericho, but changed its name with the building of the railway station. The railway grounds also contained wheat silos and cattle yards. Gredgwin was operated on a no-one-in-charge basis when the line was opened in 1894. It presumably returning to this status from 19th. December, 1966.
The station building was removed in the 1960s, presumably after 1966. The goods shed was also removed about the same time and is now used as storage area as part of a private residence in Boort. The grain siding remains open to traffic.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people Context on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of The Gredgwin grain siding has its origins in the railway station of that name opened to Significance serve the district with the line to Quambatook in 1894. It is historically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the site of the railway station which, though restricted now to handling grain traffic, recalls its service to the surrounding district since 1894. The silos are important as representative structures of their type, erected to replace the handling of grain in bags and post dated by the storage of grain in metal silos and more recently in lined bunkers. Their situation at Gredgwin is also of interest in the light of the recent trend towards the regionalisation of grain collection and distribution centres. Recommendations Not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme because the complex has a low level of integrity and the silos, which survive with a high level of integrity, are common place in the region.
References Guiney. M., Weekly Notice Extracts 1894-1994, p.147.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study Ba1 Place General Store (closed)
Formerly Barraport General Store
Address Boort - Quambatook Road Barraport
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 404117 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A small former general store and residence of timber construction with original timber shop front window, ingo, posted verandah and corrugated iron clad gable ended roof to the store. The timber verandah floor has presumably been removed, The words Barraport General Store are painted on the window.The residence is attached on the south side and recessed behind a timber posted verandah, the character of the place being unpretensious.
Condition: Medium, maintenance urgently needed. Integrity: High.
History Mallee blocks of 640 acres were taken up in the Barraport area in the 1870s. The nucleus of Barraport township shifted with the building of the railway in 1886. An important wheat district, horse teams and waggons delivered grain to the railway where it was stacked in bags to await transport. Barraport township, c1915, consisted of a home containing a post office, a blacksmith shop, a cooperative store, a general store, a residence for railway workers and a school. Because of the small size of the township, the general store was of some importance. Owned by Mr J. Velelly, the house and shop front was believed to have been built c1915. It contained a cellar where soft drinks were stored, and acted as an agent for the buying of wheat and for various firms. The store continued to operate until the 1930s.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Barraport). Context
Statement of The former Barraport General store was built c.1915. It is historically significant. This Significance significance (Criterion A) centres on its capacity to demonstrate an aspect of the settlement that once served the farming district of Barraport and which consisted of a post office, a blacksmith shop, cooperative store, general store, residence for railway workers and a school. As a surviving general store it is now rare (Criterion B), comparing in the Shire with the closed stores at Eddington and Laanecoorie and on the trunk railway routes at Prairie, Mologa and Dingee. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme
References Source: Fae Stevens, Smoke From The Hill, Cambridge University Press, 1969, pp. 102- 105 Local residents.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Ba2 Place School building (closed) and playground
Formerly Barraport State School no. 3886
Address Barraport East Road Barraport
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 409118 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A standard type 22 single classroom timber framed school building of the Great War period. There are lean to sections on both sides, one of which was built initially as a verandah. The hipped roof is corrugated iron clad with gablets at the ridge ends and there is a red brick chimney. The fireplace is in situ along with the pine floor and interior timber wall linings. The rear wall of the classroom has been removed exposing the interior to the weather. The standard multipaned windows characteristic of the design are in situ.
Condition: Unsound, urgent stabilisation works needed. Associated gardens remnants include garden beds with quartz stone borders, garden gate with arch at the entry and sugar gums along the boundary. The fence has precast concrete posts with rabbit wire mesh..
History The Barraport School No. 3886 (formerly known as Barraport South) opened in 1915 and moved to the present site in 1925. It closed when buses began taking students to Boort in 1968. Construction on the original site took place between 10/1914 and 1/3/1915 to a standard Type 22 design of the Education Department, first erected at Ravenswood in 1913. The single classroom accommodated between 24 and 32 desks and the verandah at Barraport was non-standard. The responsible architect was S.C. Brittingham, chief architect of the Victorian Public Works Department from 1916 until 1922.
Thematic 6. Educating. 6.2 Establishing schools. Context
Statement of The former Barraport South, later Barraport School no. 3886 was built in 1914-15 to the Significance design of S.C. Brittingham when G.W. Watson was chief architect of the Victorian Public Works Department. It was relocated to the present site in 1925 and closed in 1968. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a surviving example of 20 similar single classroom schools built for the Education Department around the time of the Great War, comparing within the Shire with Durham Ox and Mologa. All of these schools have been closed with the result that they collectively offer an insight into the standards of accommodation and the way of life associated with schools in small communities at the time. The Barraport school is important also as a rare surviving public building at Barraport, recalling the Government's investment in remote communities during the period of closer settlement around the time of the Great War. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme
References Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, p. 104
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study Y1 Place School building (closed)
Formerly Yando State School no. 2580
Address Off Boort Yando Road Yando
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 521034 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A standard late nineteenth century single classroom timber framed school with later windows to façade and lean-to section to one side. The school nameboard remains ( barely illegible) along with the characteristic steeply pitched gable roof with ornamental finials.
Condition: Sound, maintenance needed. Integrity: Medium, porch missing, windows altered (exterior only inspected), remains of shelter shed and peppercorns nearby.
History The Yando School (also known as Lake Leaghur), with an enrolment of 36, opened in July 1884 in a bark building with an earthen floor. The original school was replaced by a weatherboard building in 1890. The school won first prize c1900 in the Bendigo district for its garden. The school closed in 1957.
Thematic 6. Educating. 6.2 Establishing schools. Context
Statement of The former Yando School building is situated off the Boort-Yando Road in the Yando Significance township. It was erected in 1890 and closed in 1957. It is of historic significance. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a standard timber school designed to accommodate 40 children and erected towards the end of the period during which the design was in use, this example being devoid of the characteristic gable roofed porch. Whilst it is no longer highly representative of the type it has significance for its association with the farming community of Yando and demonstrates the Education Department's long standing though now obsolete policy of providing small schools at remote local centres of population. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme
References Blake, L. J. (ed.) Vision and Realisation: A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria, Volume 2. Education Department of Victoria, Melbourne, 1973, p. 548
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2001 Loddon Heritage Study Y2 Place Yando Public Hall
Formerly
Address Off Boort Yando Road Yando
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 521034 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A bullnose weatherboard clad public hall now faced with aluminium siding and having a corrugated iron roof with prominent ventilators. There is a porch and a later rear lean to addition. The elevations are relieved with double hung windows, fixed louvre vents in the gable end and there is a rear galvanised iron chimney on a brick base.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium.
History The Yando Hall, formerly the Oakvale Hall, was moved to its current site in the 1970s when it was clad. The farming community centred on Oakvale is situated on the Robinvale railway line north of Gredgwin in the present Shire of Gannawarra. Before the arrival of the hall building, the local community used to meet at the Methodist church which once stood on the block next door.
The hall continues to be used today as a meeting place.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. Forming associations. Context
Statement of The Yando public hall was relocated from Oakvale to Yando in the 1970s. It is situated Significance in the township of Yando to the east of the Yando Boort Road. It is of historic interest for its association with Oakvale in the Shire of Gannawarra.
Recommendations Not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme owing to the level of defacement sustained and to its recent relocation from outside the Shire.
References Frank Boyle, local resident Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2001 Loddon Heritage Study M1 Place Former hotel
Formerly Grant's hotel and post office
Address Corner Price's Road and Mitiamo - Pyrami Mologa
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 449950 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A remote timber framed hotel situated at the junction of Prices Road and the Mitiamo Pyramid Road, both of which are unsealed, the form of the building consisting of two shallow gables incorporating a posted verandah overlooking the intersection. There is a lean to at the rear and later (?) verandah along the east side. Some of the windows have been replaced but others are double hung with glazing bars.
A Murray Pine framed stables with mud brick walls is located on the property further to the west. The gable roof is corrugated iron clad.
Condition: Sound (former hotel), Medium-unsound (stables). Integrity: Medium (hotel), High (stables).
History In November 1878, Joseph Grant advertised his intention to apply for a Publican’s Licence. This was subsequently granted and in 1878, Joseph Grant established a store, post office and hotel known as ‘Grants’ on his selection which fronted the Yarrawalla- Kerang Road. The site was well chosen as it was situated on one of the main stockroutes. The area took its name from the post office housed in the store known as Mologa East. A mud-brick hall was erected on Grant’s land around the same time.
Fire destroyed Grant’s Hotel in May 1898 and it was subsequently rebuilt on the same site.
It operated as a hotel until 1916. It is understood the hotel was situated on a coach route, the stables being used in this connection.
The original building has been much modified and is now utilised as a residence.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11 Feeding people. 3.11.5. Context Retailing food and beverages. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people on land. 7. Governing. 7.5 Developing administrative structures and authorities. 7.5.7. Providing services and welfare (postal).
Statement of The former Grant's hotel is situated at the intersection of Price's Road and the Mitiamo Significance Road, Mologa and was built following a fire in 1898, having been established in 1878 as a store, post office and hotel. The stables may have been built as early as 1878. The hotel and stables are historically, aesthetically and technically important. They are historically important (Criterion A) in that they mark the site of the Mologa township established prior to the opening of the railway in 1884 and for their association with early stock and coach routes, their presence facilitating the interpretation of the district's early history. The building's role as a post office enhances this significance.
They are aesthetically important (Criterion E) for the manner in which the hotel overlooks the expansive intersection of unsealed roads in a still remote location surrounded by bushland redolent of times past.
The stables are technically important (Criterion F) as rare surviving examples of early construction practices incorporating mud brick and Murray Pine framing. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over the removal of outbuildings.
References VPRS 440, Units 1528 & 1549, PRO Sharland, Michael, Those Verdant Plains. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971, pp. 38 & 43.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study M2 Place Mologa Hall
Formerly
Address main street Mologa
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 467952 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A ruinous horizontal ripple iron clad timber framed and internally unlined public hall (8.3 metres x 19.4 metres) with somewhat Free Style façade having a timber cartouche over the central doorway, flanking windows and implied pilaster terminations interrupting the gable end profile which has a curved apex.
Inside, light hardwood framing includes sawn king post trusses with a single longitudinal iron tie rod, iron cross ties and every fourth truss having knee braces tieing it to the stud frame which has two rows of noggings. Hardwood floor linings are in situ with a Baltic pine stage, the rear lean to portion of the building formerly accommodating the kitchen and dressing room having collapsed. The remains of a red brick stove recess and chimney are in situ.
Condition: Unsound. Integrity: High.
History A public meeting was held at the Mologa State School in April 1922 for the purpose of erecting a public hall. A number of sites were offered by residents, and one, north of the bakery, chosen. Subscriptions, to the value of £200, for the erection of the hall were promised. Mr C. D. Graham was employed as architect and tenders called for the erection of the hall in May 1922. The Mologa Hall was opened in January, 1923, with the holding of a sports and market afternoon followed by an evening concert. The Hall was described by the Pyramid Advertiser:
The hall is substantially built as can be seen by a look around the interior and has an especially good stage and floor. The style of the building and the ventilation is right up to date.
The Hall served the district until c1967.
It is now in a state of disrepair and used for farm storage.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.5 Forming associations. Context Statement of The former Mologa public hall is situated in the main street of the former township of Significance Mologa and was built in 1922-23 to the design of architect C.D. Graham. It has historic and aesthetic significance.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the principal meeting place and centre of entertainment in the former township, this importance being enhanced by its survival, although now ruinous, as one of the few buildings left to mark the existence of the township.
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a highly picturesque and pretensious building for this now abandoned township, evoking images of an erstwhile thriving community. This significance is enhanced by the high level of integrity of the remains which extend to the framed but unlined interior and by the visual contrast between the building itself on the edge of the township site and the level fields beyond. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion on the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over interior alterations.
References Back to Mologa Calendar 1997, Northern Times Print, Kerang Pyramid Advertiser, April 21, 1922; May 5, 1922; February 9, 1923
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study M3 Place Mologa station ground and memorial
Formerly
Address main street Mologa
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 466950 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The site of Molga station is defined by fence lines using standard departmental pre-cast concrete posts and by the main single line of railway passing through the former station ground. Remains of infrastrusture include the station mound remains, a dam at the north end of the ground and two sites on the west side of the line consisting of brick footings and a brick hearth with outbuilding fragments marking the sites of departmental residences and the gate posts to the goods yard entry. There are also associated peppercorns and sugar gums
The war memorial is located alongside the former goods yard entrance and is enclosed by a recent ARC fence and an earlier wrought iron fence made up of intersecting loops characteristic of grave plots. The memorial has an axe finished granite base with a plished granite middle stage terminated by pediments to all faces and surmounted by a dressed granite obelisk with pyramidal cap. The memorial is dedicated to 18 men of the district who partipated in the Great War 0f 1914-19, 10 of whom paid the supreme sacrifice.
Condition: Sound (memorial). Integrity: Low (station ground), High, includes remnants of original timber enclosing fence. (memorial).
History A goods platform was erected at Mologa by W. Sly and Co. under a contract signed on 30th. November 1883. During 1894-95 a program of substituting cattle pits for gatekeepers' cottages was extended and it is understood that the station building at Mologa consisted of a cottage relocated for this purpose about this time. The grounds eventually contained a station building, goods-shed, stock yards, grain stacks, three dams (government tanks) and three railway houses. Hand pumps were erected on two of the dams during the drought of the early1890s so that settlers could obtain water. In later years, a stop was put in the creek so that the tanks could be filled. The station was not only used as a holding point for crops, sheep and cattle, but was also used to store trees cut into lengths to be transported to mines at Eaglehawk and Bendigo.
A caretaker replaced the station master from 23rd. January, 1930. Mologa was closed to passenger traffic from 24th. July, 1972 and the platform recorded as abolished on 23rd. January, 1973. It was closed to all traffic from 12th. April, 1977, the siding having remained open for superphosphate until that time. The points to the siding were spiked on 26th. May, 1977 and subsequently removed.
Today, the station complex is evidenced only by earthen mounds where the platform once stood, and by garden remnants and footings which testify to the existence of the railway houses. A dam is still in existence.
The war memorial stands to the east of the station complex and is dedicated to those who served in WW I.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people Context on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways. 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.8. Remembering the fallen.
Statement of The station ground at Mologa incorporates the Mologa war memorial and is located Significance where the Swan Hill railway crosses the Mologa Road. The railway station at Mologa was opened with the line in 1884 and closed to all traffic in 1977. The station ground is historically significant and the war memorial is historically, aesthetically and socially significant.
The station ground is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to demonstrate the presence of the railway in the history of the township and its district and for the manner in which the site occupies the whole of the western side of the main street of Mologa. This significance is demonstrated especially by ther goods yard entry gates and by the dam in the north end of the yard.
The war memorial is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to demonstrate the level of participation in the Great War by families resident in the district. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an imposing but representative monument of its type attracting importance on account of its situation within the abandoned township site. It is socially important (Criterion G) for the value palced on its by the community today as is evidenced by the recent "Back To" celebrations of 1997. Recommendations It is recommended that the railway dam and the monument be included in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Back to Mologa Calendar 1997, Northern Times Print, Kerang Kent, J. A., The Major’s Vision – and its Fulfilment. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1974, pp. 40-1. Report of the Railway Commissioners for 6 months to 30.6.84, y.e. 30.6.85. Guiney M., "Weekly Notice Extracts 1894-1994", Weekly Notice Productions, 1996. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jun 1998 Loddon Heritage Study M4 Place House
Formerly Post Office
Address main street Mologa
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 467951 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A timber dwelling with former post office and store facing the station ground in the main street of Mologa. It is a late Inter War timber building with a shallow pyramidal corrugated iron clad roof and attached timber posted verandah and asymmetrical wing facing the street. The wing has timber strapwork to the roughcast gable end, the opening to the store and office having been replaced with weatherboards. The posted verandah has simple bracket ornamentation and there is a lean to section at the rear.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium, the double doors to the store/office have been replaced as noted, the picket fence is recent.
History A post office was opened at the Mologa railway station in 1891. The Mologa Post Office and Store was established by Miss Jane Willoughby and was later known as Listers, and later sold to Savilles. The store closed in 1917. The post office was conducted from a room on the front verandah from c1912 until 1931. In the early 1930s, a new home and post office (the present building) were built. A telephone exchange operated until the mid-1950s, and the post office officially closed in September, 1969.
Today the building is used as a private residence.
Thematic 7. Governing. 7.5. Developing administrative structures and authorities. 7.5.7. Context Providing services and welfare (postal).
Statement of The former Mologa store and post office and associated house in the main street of the Significance Mologa township site were built during the early 1930s replacing earlier similar premises. The post office was closed in September, 1969. It has historic significance.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the sole surviving commercial building within the township and as a centre for the delivery of postal services for almost 40 years. As such it is pivotal to the significance of Mologa as a former township within the Shire. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Mologa Heritage Overlay Area.
References Back to Mologa Calendar 1997, Northern Times Print, Kerang. VPP1892-93,v.2, Report of the Post Office and Telegraph Department for 1891.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study M5 Place Former Mologa State School no. 1836
Formerly
Address Mologa - Echuca Road Mologa
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 470950 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A standard Victorian Public Works Department single classroom timber framed school building of the Inter-war period having a classroom, cloak room and entry porch. There is a large window with hoppers and glazing bars facing the playground and the Mologa Road and a board with the name of the School and number, now faded, above. A seconadry but similar window faces north alongside the porch. The roof form is gabled as opposed to the equally common hipped roofed form for schools of this size.
Inside a vertical timber lined dado is surmounted by fibrous plaster linings with timber straps, the ceiling sheets having collapsed. There is a brick fireplace and provision for blackboards since removed. An early colour scheme survives with a mid green dado, dark brown trim, buff fill, stone architraves and sashes.
Condition: Unsound. Integrity: High, includes mature sugar gums. There is a ruinous timber post and rail fence with 4 wire strands and chicken wire along the front and a recent memorial to the school reading: "Site of Mologa State School no. 1836 1926- 1952 First teacher Florence Gregory last teacher Ronald Turnbull". It was erected by the Back To Mologa Central Committee on 2nd. November, 1997.
History Because of overcrowding, the Mologa East State School was moved to this site of two acres in 1926 and in the same year its name was changed to Mologa to conform to that of the railway station. The site of two acres had been purchased from W.J. Williams in 1915. A local resident described the new school thus: The building is ideal in design and situation. The interior is panelled in Australian hardwood and white plaster sheets. The vestibule has its wash basin and hat racks and a good fly proof lunch cupboard with shelves of wooden bars. The ground is a gentle slope and is already well planted with shelter trees, so that in a few years should see a very attractive spot as the result.
The school closed was closed on 25th. January, 1952.
Today the building is in disrepair and is utlised for machinery storage.
Thematic 6. Educating. 6.2. Establishing schools. Context Statement of The former Mologa School no. 1836 was built in 1926 to a standard design of the Significance Victorian Public Works Department during E. Evan Smith's term as chief architect. It was closed in 1952 and the building remains as a storage shed within the old reserve, now distinguished by its mature sugar gums on the Mologa Road, just east of the Mologa township centre site. It is historically and technically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the sole centre of education at Mologa from 1926 until 1952 and as a surviving building giving form to the remains of the Mologa township. It is technically significant (Criterion F) as an example of an interior scheme of decoration used by the Education Department during the late 1920s. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Mologa Heritage Overlay Area. It is further recommended that the interior scheme of decoration be recorded.
References Back to Mologa Calendar 1997, Northern Times Print, Kerang. Education Department of Victoria: "Vision and Realisation". 1973, v.2 pp. 505-06.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Mi1 Place Farmhouse
Formerly
Address 239 Mitiamo Forest road Mitiamo
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 508913 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Includes brick well.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jun 1998 Loddon Heritage Study Mi2 Place Farmhouse
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Address 183 Mitiamo Forest Road Mitiamo
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Assessed by: Andrew ward Assessment date: Jun 1998 Loddon Heritage Study B34 Place Godfrey Street town centre
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Address Godfrey Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 4522995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Includes whole of town centre from railway line to former civic complex.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study B35 Place Masonic Temple
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Address Kiniry Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 453995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A Classically derived Masonic temple, T shaped on plan with a later rear addition. Masonry walls are overpainted on the façade which has fluted pilasters supporting an elaborate entablature incorporating Masonic symbols in low relief, the surmounting pediment having a foliated tympanum with compass and square.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History The lodge was consecrated and dedicated by the Deputy Grand Master of Victoria, Rt. Wor. Bro. George Baker assisted by Grand Lodge Officers, in the old National Bank in July 1899. As membership increased, it was decided to build a new Temple. The foundation for the new building was laid in June 1913 by the then Worshipful P. M. Bro. C. Nixon and the structure completed later that year. The Masonic Temple was designed by Mr C. D. Graham and built by Messrs. McLaren and Beer at a cost of £700.
The Boort Standard carried this description of the building: The front design of the erection conforms to a style of classical architecture, and although not elaborately finished, presents a very artistic foreground. The building consists of two halls, front and rear, with a main entrance approached by flanked steps. In keeping with the external lines, the interior has been planned on a substantial scale, the effect of the uniform decorative work being displayed to great advantage…The situation of the structure is one which gives it a commanding prospect overlooking Lake Boort…
In 1946, a Chapter of Royal Arch Freemasons was formed, and the foundation stone of the present temple laid in April, 1961. The older building was incorporated into the new design as a supper room.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The former Masonic Temple at Boort was erected in 1913 and replaced in 1961 by the Significance present temple. It is located on the corner of Kiniry Street and Lake View Street North, Boort. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Freemasonry in Boort from 1913 until 1961 recalling the introduction of Freemasonry to Boort in 1899. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as the only Classically derived place of worship in the Shire, the façade treatment recalling that of the Renaissance church of S. Maria Novella in Florence (1278-1350) in its adaptation of Classical forms to the emerging worship requirements of the day. The building's association with the Shire engineer, C.D. Graham , is of interest, Graham also having responsibility for the design of the Mologa Hall, the Presbyterian Church and memorial Hall at Durham Ox and the Soldiers' Memorial Hall at Boort. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Area in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, p. 252. Boort Standard, 25th September, 1913
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B36 Place "Avalon"
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Address 93 Lake View Street North Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 453995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An exceptionally picturesque and imposing Inter War period villa demonstrating Arts and Crafts influence in its form and details. The characteristic cross ridged gable form and shady corner verandah, strapwork to the dominant gable ends, attic floor and shingled balcony and window bay are elements of the Arts and Crafts villa as it emerged in this country, "Avalon" being enhanced by its elevated aspect over the front garden. The projecting balcony surmounting the brick porch with ladder frame frieze and steps is the dominant element with the verandah and faceted window bay being subordinate to it. Tall chminey stacks, coupled verandah posts with lattice ornamentation and spandrels and inverted curves to the balustrading together with lead light work combine to strengthen the visual interest of this house.
Condition; Sound. Integrity: High, includes front fence with corner gate and garage. Balcony glazed in.
History This block was originally the site of the Boort Hotel stables. In 1924, ‘Avalon’ was built for Mr. Lewis Lanyon and family for their retirement from farm life. ‘Avalon’ was designed by Beebe and Garvin from Bendigo and built by Mr. Isburg. Woodwork was carried out by Mr. Dunn. At the time of its construction, the double-storey house was the largest in the district.
Mr. Lanyon contracted typhoid fever on a trip overseas and died only months after moving to ‘Avalon’. Mrs Lanyon and family moved to St Arnaud and the house, still in their ownership, was let as a boarding house. At one time, six teachers and three bankers boarded in the house.
A number of owners bought and sold the house over the years. It was used often for social functions, including band practice and a party to farewell soldiers in World War II. The Boyle family purchased the house in 1969 and has since modernised many of its internal features.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context Statement of "Avalon" is situated at no. 93 Lake View Street North, Boort and was designed by noted Significance Bendigo architects Beebe and Garvin and built by a Mr. Dunn for the farmer, Lewis Lanyon in 1924. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to demonstrate an aspect of the township's prosperity during the Inter War period, "Avalon" being an exceptionally large and imposing house of its time of sufficient stature to be illustrated in "Boort Yesterday and Today" published in 1924 by the Back to Boort Celebrations Committee. Occupying a prominent position in Lakeview Street North, this house also helps establish the street's status as the township's premier residential street during the Inter war period.
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a highly picturesque essay in the Arts and Crafts mode, built during the latter years of the style's popularity but demonstrating many of its hallmarks and doing so more successfully than any other house in the township, the cross ridged gable form, shingled balcony, asymmetry and ornamentation being particularly expressive.
The building's association with the Bendigo architects Beebe and Garvin is of note, this firm designing many of the most stylistically innovative buildings at the time in Bendigo and its surrounding districts. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Overlay Area.
References Back to Boort Celebration Committee: "Boort Yesterday and Today", 4.10.1924. Local History Group: "Boort Buildings Survey: A History of Some Buildings of Boort and District", 1986 (unpub). Source: Boyle, Naomi & Stringer, Michelle, ‘Boort Buildings Survey’, Boort High School, 1986 Frank Boyle, local resident Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B37 Place Gordon Shire Soldiers Memorial Hall
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Address Godfrey Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 453995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A picturesque symmetrical masonry public hall with stuccoed front section in the Spanish Mission manner. There is a central recessed porch with round archway having stepped reveals and cabled columns with papyrus capitals. There are bays on either side and a surmounting castellated parapet. A biobox is situated above the porch with a serpentine parapet, a crest of the armed forces and the words "Shire of Gordon" in low relief. The words "Memorial Hall" also in low relief, have been placed symmetrically above the window bays. The main hall has nine buttressed bays with a later timber framed addition and a surmounting serpentine parapet treatment to the façade end.
Inside, the front section accommodates the cloak room and vestibule. The hall ceiling is curved with plastered beams, ornamental strapwork and zinc vents whilst the proscenium arch adopts a temple form with flanking Tuscan pilasters and entablature. The light fittings to the vestibule and hall appear to be original and there are honour rolls in situ.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History The Boort Returned Soldiers League and Sailors Imperial League of Australia (R.S.S.I.L.A.), formed in 1919, planned the building of the Memorial Hall. A block of land was purchased for £50 for this purpose in 1921. Raising of funds for the erection of the hall was initiated, and construction, incorporating a library and R.S.L. meeting rooms, began in 1928. The building, constructed of red brick with a cement sheet kitchen, was designed by C. D. Graham, engineer with the Shire of Gordon, and cost £6,356 to build. The Memorial Hall was opened in 1929 by Brigadier General Elliot. A ball was held in the Hall as part of the opening celebrations.
Due to an ability to pay the loan on the Hall off, in 1935 the Hall was purchased by the Shire of Gordon for £3,800 and the library closed. The Shire used the front two rooms as offices until 1963 when council chambers were built. A new R.S.L. club room was built in 1938.
In 1990, a committee was formed to refurbish the Hall.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context 7.5.1. Developing local government authorities. 8.8. Remembering the fallen. Statement of The Gordon Shire Memorial Hall is situated in Godfrey Street, Boort at the Lake View Significance Street North corner. It was built in 1928-29 to the design of Shire engineer, C. D. Graham. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a public memorial hall commemorating the involvement of the district in the Great War and other conflicts and as a public meeting place and entertainment venue since 1931. It demonstrates the widespread practice of building such halls following the Great War and is important also as an expression of the rebuilding of a community folowing the war and of its coming to terms with the loss of a generation. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an exceptionally picturesque public building in the Spanish Mission Style, the architectural expression being much more stylistically sophisticated than is normally the case with buildings in the style. Contributory elements include the use of symmetry, the techniques employed to give emphasis to the entry, the barrel vaulted porch and the castellated parapet creating the impression of a fort. The relationship with the RSL Rooms alongside and the aspect over the public gardens are also important elements contributing to the aesthetic values of the place. The building's association with the Shire engineer for the former Gordon Shire, C.D. Graham is important (Criterion H) since he undertook several commissions throughout the Shire, this work being unquestionably his finest. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Overlay Area with control over interior alterations. Recommended for inclusion in the National Estate Register and the Victorian Heritage Register. References Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, p. 192 Historic Places Section, Public Buildings Database, 2000
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B38 Place RSL Club Rooms
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Address Godfrey Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 453995 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A picturesque symmetrical masonry Club Rooms with stuccoed façade and return treatment on the east side. They have a hipped terra cotta tiled roof with later rear additions in brickwork. The castellated parapet and projecting window bay with round arched windows correspond with the design of the Memorial Hall and are in the Spanish Mission Style.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History The Boort sub-branch of the R.S.L. was formed in 1919. A meeting was held c1926 with a view to building a memorial hall, the design of which included meeting rooms for the R.S.L. The R.S.L was unable to meet the required financial payments for the loan however, and the Boort Memorial Hall was purchased by the Gordon Shire in 1935 for a sum of £3,800. A new R.S.L. club room was built in 1938 for £300 and opened by president E. G. Elliot. A kitchen was added in later years.
The R.S.L. has undertaken a number of activities over the years which have provided both moral and financial support to local soldiers and their families.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Boort). Context 7.5.1. Developing local government authorities. 8.8. Remembering the fallen.
Statement of The Boort R.S.L. Club Rooms are situated alongside the Soldiers' Memorial Hall in Significance Godfrey Street, Boort and were built in 1938, presumably to the design of the Gordon Shire engineer, C.D. Graham. They are historically and aesthetically significant.
They are historically significant (Criterion A) as the premises of a prominent community group within the township since 1938. They are aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an example of the Spanish Mission Style corresponding with the design of the adjacent Memorial Hall and thereby forming a remarkable civic group The aspect over the public gardens facing Godfrey Street contributes to their aesthetic value. The presumed association with the engineer of the former Shire of Gordon, C.D. Graham, is important, this building in conjunction with the adjoining Memorial Hall forming an aesthetically noteworthy goup and constituting his finest design from the several buildings attributed to him throughout the Shire. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Boort Central Overlay Area with control over interior alterations. Recommended for inclusion in the National Estate Register and the Victorian Heritage Register. References Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, pp. 199 & 250
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Br2 Place Post Office
Formerly Post and Telegraph Office
Address Main Street, corner Park Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 629452 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A standard tuck pointed symmetrical red brick hip roofed post office with central projecting arcaded porch and cement banding at sill, impost and frieze level. Openings are segmental. The entry to the quarters is protected by a verandah facing Park Street. There are slate flags to the porch floor which has bluestone steps and wrought iron hand rails.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, interior alterations to the public space.
History A post office was opened at Bridgewater-on-Loddon in 1868. Telegraphic communications were extended to the railway station in 1877, following the opening of the railway to that point on 19th. September, 1876. Postal and telegraph services were available there and later at James Stebbins’ store. On 14th. August, 1889, a tender was accepted for the construction of a post office on a block of land between the Loddon River and Erskine Street. The tender was awarded to Mr N. Longstaff at a value of £1,131; the completed cost of the building being £1,171. The design had been prepared by George W. Watson, Public Works Department assistant architect Central District, and was drawn by J.C. Morell. It was a standard design for which Watson had responsibility, other examples being erected at Tarnagulla (1885), Lancefield (1887), Rochester (1888), Romsey (1889) and Maffra.
The new post office, encompassing postal and telegraphic services, was opened in 1890 as a Class A official office with Mr F. Taylor as postmaster. It was purchased freehold in 1969 by Mr R. G. Kelly. The manual telephone exchange continued to operate until the late 1980s.
Today the business is conducted as a Licensed Post Office.
Thematic 7. Governing. 7.5 Developing administrative structures and authorities. 7.5.7. Context Providing services and welfare (postal).
Statement of The post and telegraph office erected at Bridgewater-on-Loddon to the design of the Significance Victorian Public Works Department's assistant architect, Central District, George W. Watson, was built at the corner of Main and Park Streets in 1889-90. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its central position in the provision of postal and telegraphic services to Bridgewater-on-Loddon since 1890. This importance is enhanced by the continuing use of the building as a post office at the present time. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a substantially intact example of a standard Public Works Department design for a small post office prepared during the late nineteenth century Boom period, undertaken by George W. Watson. This importance is enhanced by the building's association with Watson who was one of the Department's leading architects at the time, better known for his designs for the law courts and post office at Bendigo. Finally, its aesthetic importance is also enhanced by the prominent position occupied by the building at the Park Street corner in the Bridgewater-on-Loddon Heritage Overlay Area. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Bridgewater-on-Loddon Heritage Overlay Area.
References Angela Flavell, present owner Post Office Records VPP 1869, v.3: Report upon the affairs of the Post Office of Victoria for the year 1868, 1878, v.2, 1890, v.3, 1891, v.3.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2000 Loddon Heritage Study DO6 Place Duck Swamp station homestead complex (not f
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Address Durham Ox
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study Br1 Place Main Street town centre
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Address Main Street, between Loddon R. and Erski Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 630451 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Refer data sheet for proposed Heritage Overlay Area.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study Br3 Place Portable Iron Building
Formerly Store, motor garage.
Address 21 Main Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 450631 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A prefabricated iron building, rectangular on plan and presumably built as a store, having a double concave gable roof and walls in 5 inch (?) pitch corrugated iron, the latter being subdivided into demountable bays, some clad with sheets of vertical corrugated iron and some with metal framed windows with T section sills and heads and with horizontal corrugated iron panels beneath. The east side windows have round arched sashes, mainly concealed from view by ivy. The garage front is recent though the angle iron corner members are in situ. The rear elevation has horizontal corrugated iron cladding to roof level and vertical corrugated iron cladding above.
Condition: Sound. Integrity; High.
History The site on which this building is situated was first used to house a store. In 1882, the store was taken over by Robert Wylie who operated a saddlery from the premises. In 1884, the store was described as brick with a timber dwelling situated on the next allotment. Wylie continued to operate the store until 1929 when K. L. Gordon took it over as a commission agents and retailer of farm machinery. The store was purchased c1931 by the Lynchs and subsequently operated as a garage/service station until c1975. The iron building was on site when the Lynchs bought the property, however the actual date of its erection is unknown.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Bridgewater on Loddon) Context
Statement of The former store at no. 21 Main Street, Bridgewater on Loddon was built presumably in Significance the 1850's as a prefabricated iron building and has been situated at this location for many years. It is historically important. This importance (Criterion A) arises from its capacity to demonstrate a type of structure imported from England following the gold discoveries when accommodation in the Colony was in short supply. It is important also as a rare survivor (Criterion B) of a once common building type, its significance being enhanced by its intact state and the existence of elements including wide pitched corrugated iron, T sections and round arched motifs to the windows that compare readily with other surviving examples, now seen at Coventry Street South Melbourne. The double convex roof form seen at Bridgewater is understood to be unique. Together with other known surviving examples of prefabricated iron buildings, the former Bridgewater store helps substantiate the principal characteristics of this type of structure (Criterion D). Recommendations Recommended for inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register, the Australian Heritage Commission Register and the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over interior.
References Shire of Marong Rate Books Local residents
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Br4 Place Bridgewater Railway Station complex
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Address Brougham, Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 634450 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A standard mid Victorian railway station complex consisting of station building with yard and closets/lamp room and van goods shed facing the passenger platform, goods shed and platform and two separate outside loading platforms. There are also recent silos and a road weighbridge.
The station building and lamp room/closets are linked by a brick wall along the platform enclosing the station master's yard with outbuildings. The arrangement is a standard design. The station building has a concave platform and roadside verandah, the former with standard fluted cast iron cast iron columns and lacework and the latter with a timber curtain. Walls are of red brick with a cement plinth and hipped slate roof. From west to east, the compartments consist of the public lobby with booking window, office and residence. Both the roadside verandah and the easternmost wing are subordinate to the main hipped roof and have lean to roofs with brick wing walls. The ridges are extended to form small triangular ridge vents. Prominent stuccoed chimneys retain their cornices. Inside, the principal spaces are intact. There are pressed metal ceilings to the ticket office and waiting area and timber dados. The lamp room/closets is a utilitarian red brick detached structure with hipped slate roof. Inside, the lamp room has a concrete floor, white bagged walls and a varnished pine ceiling. The closets have a flagged floor. There is an underground cistern in the station master's yard and a timber framed wash house. The timber framed van goods shed is a standard twentieth century structure of its type with sliding doors to the platform and cart dock and a lean to roof.
The goods shed is a standard red brick gable roofed building designed to form part of the complex. The end walls are trabeated with oculus vents, the west end wall having been demolished following the closure of the goods shed and faced with corrugated iron. Extended eaves protect the timber platforms since removed. There are two doors on the roadside and three on the rail side, the loading platforms having been removed to facilitate vehicular access following closure. The remains of the outside loading platform with timber deck and pre-cast concrete stumps at the east end of the building are in situ.There are additional outside loading platforms to the east and west of the goods shed, the latter disused and overgrown.
Condition: Sound, maintenance needed. Integrity: Medium, goods shed defaced, platforms part demolished. Detached timber framed ladies' waiting room demolished. Departmental residence demolished? History The establishment of a railway line through Bridgewater was lobbied for by the Railway League founded in 1873. A line was opened from Bendigo as far as Bridgewater on 19th. September, 1876 and extended to Inglewood on 18th. November, 1876. Isaac Summerland was awarded contracts to build identical passenger stations at Eaglehawk, Bridgewater, Inglewood and Avoca (on the Maryborough- Avoca branch) on 16th. June, 1876. A contract was let to William McGibbon to build the goods shed on 21st. July, 1876. George Sims, who held the position of chief architectural draftsman at least from 1878, may have had responsibility for the design. A water supply with 6,000 gallon combined tank and crane was installed by A. Millar under a contract awarded on 15th. February, 1889. Subsequent works included a fuel platform, possibly extant, and a residence for the signal adjuster. Saw benches operated in the railway yards in the 1880s and 1890s to provide the fuel required by the steam-engines operated by the Water-Wheel Loddon flour mill. A carriage dock was provided on 17th. January, 1910 for the Water and Kerang United Roller Flour Mill's siding.
Passenger services were withdrawn in 1976. By 1989 Bridgewater had been established as a train order crossing station to be attended only when trains were scheduled to cross. The station building has been leased since the removal of staff from time to time and is presently unoccupied.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7.3 Moving goods and people Context on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of The Bridgewater station building complex was opened with the line from Bendigo to Significance Bridgewater on 19th. September, 1876, the passenger station being erected by Isaac Summerland under a contract dated 18th. November, 1876 and the goods shed by William McGibbon under a contract dated 21st. July, 1876. The complex was a standard design of the period possibly supervised by George Sims, chief architectural draftsman at least from 1878. It is historically and aesthetically important.
It is historically important (Criterion A) as a representative station building complex of its period closely comparable with Eaglehawk and Inglewood on the same line and with Avoca, Carisbrook, Dunolly, Newstead and Rochester elsewhere. Together they demonstrate accommodation standards applicable to the Light Lines that followed the construction of the Colony's main trunk railways. Bridgewater station has played an important role in the life of the Bridgewater community as a passenger and goods transport facility from 1876 at least until the cessation of hostilities after the Second World War and to a lesser extent subsequently, the Water Wheel flour mill siding and grain silos continuing to bear testimony to the importance of this station on the railway system.
It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as an example of a standard design developed at a time when line construction costs were capped at 5,750 pounds per mile in contrast with the more expensive accommodation provided at stations on the earlier trunk railways. Built in groups or at isolated locations, these buildings through their appearance facilitate the interpretation of railway history in the field, the design of which Bridgewater is an example, being in use from 1874-77. The wide concave cast iron posted platform verandah, roadside verandah, single storeyed form and combined office and residence with yard and detached lamp room closets are its hallmarks. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over interior alterations.
References Report of the Board of Land and Works for the year ending 31st. December, 1877. Guiney, M., "Weekly Notice Extracts 1894-1994",Weekly Notice Productions, 1996. Mulwarrie (A Town on the River): A History of Bridgewater-on-Loddon Township and District 1836-1971. Back to Bridgewater Committee, 1971, p. 33 Research undertaken by Kevin Poyser, local resident. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Br5 Place Police Station complex
Formerly
Address Park Street, corner Camp Road Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 629451 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A complex of timber buildings consisting of the following elements: the quarters, station and portable lock-up. The quarters is an asymmetrical timber building with double gabled roof with finials and lancet arched roof vents. The posted verandah has decorative brackets to the posts and there are dominant brick chimneys. The small station alongside is a single room office with gable roof and timber posted verandah with scalloped valence and sun hood to the office window. There is a sheet metal fireplace and chimney on the rear wall. The lock-up is a standard portable single cell lock-up with gable roof and fixed timber ventilation in the gable ends.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High. Includes three mature white cedars on the Park Street boundary. Stables demolished.
History It is believed that the first police station at Bridgewater was built in the early 1870s as records show that arrests took place from 1872. In 1880 tenders were called for a new stable and forage store and in 1883 new police quarters were built by R. Longstaff at a cost of £512. Their design was approved by the architect Charles Barrett of the Victorian Public Works Department. R.B.Whittaker executed the drawing. Barrett had responsibility for similar designs at Serpentine, Moyston, Kangaroo Flat and Rochester. Elsewhere, similar designs were built at Harrow, Rheola, Stanley and Murchison. Kangaroo Flat survives but it is understood that the buildings at Serpentine, Rochester, Rheola and Stanley have been demolished. Accommodation included a Living Room, Bed Room, Sitting Room and Kitchen with a rear porch and pantry. The police station compares with the disused similar structure at Goornong.It was designed in 1891 by J.H. Harvey, architect with the Victorian Public Works Department, approved (?) by Henry Barstow and built under a contract signed on 22nd. September, 1891.
In 1984, the lock-up was dismantled, restored and returned to its present site. The police residence and station were renovated in 1987 and in the same year a new police residence was provided.
Thematic 7. Governing. 7.5.4. Policing Australia. Context Statement of The Bridgewater-on-Loddon police station complex is situated at the corner of Park Significance Street and Camp Road and includes the original quarters built in 1883 to a design of architect Charles Barrett of the Victorian Public Works Department. Contributory elements include the quarters, police station, lock up and mature white cedars. It is historically and aesthetically important.
It is historically important (Criterion A) not only as a centre of policing activity from 1883 until the present but also as a surviving example of a common Departmental design for quarters in use between 1880 and 1886, comparative examples remaining at Kangaroo Flat and possibly at Moyston. The comparable building at Murchison has been demolished. This importance is enhanced by the other buildings that make up the complex although the stables have been demolished. As an example of a complex of standard timber structures from the nineteenth century, enhanced by the surviving trees and location within an historic township, it is understood to be rare at the State level (Criterion B) and may be the most intact representative group of buildings based on the standard Public Works Department 1883 design for a quarters and office.
It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as a representative design for a small police station during the late Victorian Boom period, enriched by Gothic Revival references and by its austerity and details characteristic of the Public Works Department's designs for smaller buildings. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme and for inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register and the Australia Heritage Commission Register.
References The Age, 14th June, 1989, p. 5 Lewis, Miles, Australian Architectural Index, 1977, SLV Mulwarrie (A Town on the River): A History of Bridgewater-on-Loddon Township and District 1836-1971. Back to Bridgewater Committee, 1971, p. 35 Research undertaken by local resident Kevin Poyser Trethowan, B., "The Public Works Department of Victoria 1851-1900: An Architectural History", undergrad. research report, 1975, Dep't. of Architecture and Building: University of Melbourne. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Br6 Place Water Wheel Holdings Limited
Formerly Water Mill Company Loddon Ltd.
Address Lily Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 636457 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An extensive milling complex, rebuilt at different times, situated on a water race off the Loddon River and consisting of the following contributory elements: - the water race, cut through basaltic? rock but also having timber walings and situated on the east bank of the Loddon River. There is a 36 foot drop at the turbine. - the mill building of five floors and of load bearing brick construction with a steel frame inside supporting composite Oregon and hardwood floors. The water race runs beneath the building where there is a 321 h.p. turbine manufactured by Gilbert Gilkes and Gordon Ltd. of Kendal, England. It was supplied by Coates and Co., Melbourne and the design, construction and mechanical erection carried out by T.A. Meden and Co., Five Dock, New South Wales in August, 1954. The flow of water through the turbine is controlled by a gate valve. There is a vertical shaft to the gear box, thence to the main drive shaft which is presently electrically driven. At this level are 21 pine elevators manufactured by T. Robinson and Son. Ltd., Rochester, England. The roller floor, at ground floor level, accommodates 21 mills built by Thomas Robinson and Son Ltd., Rochester, England, in 1936-37. The purifier floor, at first floor level, accommodates a Robinsons' purifier. The sifter floor, at second floor level, was fitted originally with centrifugal sifters but these were replaced during the 1960s with the present equipment that separates the wheat from the bran and flour. This floor also accommodates the shafting to drive the elevators. There is a gangway at third floor level leading to the silos. The cleaning house is situated alongside the mill. - the store and packer floors are situated in a pole framed and corrugated iron clad annexe to the mill with an undercroft formerly accommodating the railway siding (rails in situ). Plant in the annexe was installed post 1964. The roof is partly gabled and the floor is of timber construction. - the steel framed motor room is of brick construction and accommodates a 300 h.p. motor manufactured by Lancashire Dynamo and Crypto Ltd. of Manchester in 1945. There is also a Ruston Hornsby (Australia) Pty. Ltd., Melbourne (builder's no. 168613) motor to drive the generator (formerly two such motors and previously a steam engine), a compressor and air cylinder. - four elevated oil tanks (former compressors from the nearby goldfields?) supplying the Ruston Hornsby motor are located on a concrete stand to the north of the complex. - the workshop has a saw tooth roof with corrugated iron and weatherbvoard wall cladding. There is a closely associated polished granite memorial erected by Wilson and Co. of Bendigo. It commemorates the lives of four who died during the Great War and was erected by the Water Mill Co. Also nearby is the weighbridge and rail siding which remain is use. - concrete silos. - timber Federation period cottage to south of complex. It is asymmetrical with a corner bull nosed verandah and gable ended treatment to the wing characteristic of the period. - the remaining storage structures and buildings to the south of the mill are recent and regarded as being only marginally contributory.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, post 1937, includes French burrstones, now stored on site but used until c.1997 in the production of stone ground flour.
History The flour mill was constructed by the company of Water-Mill Company Loddon Ltd. owned by George Horace Hayes, a miller from Ireland, during the years 1873-74.
The bluestone mill was erected by contractors Cocks, Broom and Company, on Crown Land on the east bank of the Loddon River where the river fell 10 metres in 500 metres. This steep drop supplied the force to drive an undershot water wheel which provided 320 horse-power by means of a turbine. To make full use of the power, and to ensure the supply of water in dry periods, the river was banked up and diverted down a channel cut through rock, part of which was built by Chinese labour, to the wheel. The Water Mill Company held the first Victorian licence, in 1875, for the diversion of water from a river. During the drought of 1879, water was pumped from the river via a portable pump. The three storey mill was constructed of bluestone, most of which came from Catto’s Quarry, four miles up the river.
Originally, two Francis American-type turbines were installed, each capable of developing 200 horsepower, and used in conjunction with a steam engine and boiler. Other turbines were installed in 1877, 1879 and 1884.
During its first year, the Water Mill Company produced 752 tons of flour. The milling of wheat was undertaken from crops transported from as far away as Wychitella and Boort, and once the railway was built in 1876, products such as flour, pollard and bran were despatched. In 1883-84, a roller milling plant was installed; during the same period a major remodelling of the mill was undertaken.
In 1888 Water-Mill Loddon Ltd. bought the Kerang Mill and became the Water and Kerang United Roller Mills Ltd. In the same year, the company’s exhibit obtained a First Order merit at the Centennial Exhibition in Melbourne, and offices were established in Collins Street.
A fire destroyed the mill at Bridgewater in 1892. A more modern mill was subsequently completed in 1893, and further remodelling in 1900 ensured production of a more regular product.
A broad gauge siding which linked the Mill to the railway station was constructed in 1905.
In 1909, the collapsing of the walls of Laanecoorie Weir caused flood damage to the mill, and again sections had to be rebuilt. Another fire in 1934 destroyed the Mill which did not recommence production again until 1936 with the addition of its own silos.
The Company was renamed the Water Wheel Flour Mills Pty. Ltd. in 1946. The Kerang mill was sold in 1949 and the firm became a public company in 1959.
A new 321 horsepower turbine, installed in 1954, was supplemented by a 300 horsepower electric motor in later years.
In the 1970s, the mill was producing flour using mostly Mallee wheat which came from as far away as Robinvale and Kulwin.
Today, the Water Wheel Mill continues to play an important role in the local economy producing export and baker’s flour and providing specialty products to makers of biscuits, noodles, pasta, spaghetti, pies, and cakes. A large number of silo bins have been constructed to enable the segregation of flours according to quality. In recent years, the Water Wheel Mill has diversified into the growing of vines and olives. Wine is made on the property from the grapes. Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.12. Developing an Australian manufacturing capacity.
Statement of The premises of the former Water and Kerang United Roller Mills Ltd., from 1946 the Significance Water Wheel Flour Mills Pty. Ltd. and now Water Wheel Holdings Limited were rebuilt following a fire in 1934-35. The mill complex was designed by Melbourne architects Stephenson and Meldrum and erected by the Melbourne builders John R. and E. Seccull Pty. Ltd. The complex is of historic, aesthetic, technical and social importance.
It is historically important (Criterion A) as a long established and rare (Criterion B) surviving flour milling site that commenced operations in 1873 and has remained in production since that time. In this respect it recalls and to a limited extent demonstrates the nature of the flour milling industry prior to the extension of the rail network when mills were established at population centres throughout the Colony. As a surviving country mill, it compares today only with Bunge's at Ballarat and Willis' demonstration mill at Kyneton.
It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as an imposing industrial complex, the mill and silos being the most prominent elements, situated on the water race alongside the picturesque valley of the Lddon River, the location demonstrating a source of power for the mill since 1874.
It is technically important (Criterion F) on account of the rare water driven turbine and associated water race, gate valve and shafting. The installation compares with the long defunct mill at Dight's Falls, Collingwood (turbines understood to have been removed) and the Barwon Paper Mill. This importance is enhanced by the survival of the milling equipment including roller mills and elevators of 1936-37 which are now rare on account of their early date and compare with the John Darling Mill at Albion, re-fitted in 1927 with 14 mills but no longer in production. The survival of the French burrstones is also understood to be rare.
The complex is socially important (Criterion G) for the value placed on it by the Bridgewater community and its hinterland, several families having worked there for successive generations. The war memorial recalls an aspect of this status. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register, the Australian Heritage Commission Register and the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over interior alterations.
References Webb, Colin & Quinlan, John, "Greater then Gold: A History of Agriculture in the Bendigo District from 1835 to 1985". Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1985, pp. 186-188 Jones, L. and P., "The Flour Mills of Victoria 1840-1990 An Historical redord", The Flour Millers' Council of Victoria", 1990, pp.281-288.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study Br7 Place "Bridgewater Park"
Formerly
Address Bridgewater - Raywood Road Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 638475 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A complex of buildings including the farm house, detached closets, quarters and stables (bluestone), blacksmith's shop, stock feed factory ruins, well and brick shearing shed. The house has been substantially rebuilt with a front stuccoed masonry section and a rear timber section. The front section has a corrugated iron clad gabled roof with reconstructed verandah, new window bay to one end, fretted barges and double doors opening onto the verandah.There are quoins and Gothic inspired gable end vents complementing the bargework. It is connected to a hip roofed timber framed and weatherboard clad wing with a posted verandah.
The detached brick closets are subdivided into two compartments (understood to have been built as gents and ladies) with narrow round arched windows with double hung sashes and a gable roof.
The bluestone quarters and stables are gable roofed with oculus vents in the gable ends, lean to sections at both ends, subsequently extended, and flat arched and segnmentally arches openings. Inside, the floors are pitched with bricks to the stables and with bluestone flags to the quarters where there is an early fireplace.
The blacksmith's shop is a red brick and weatherboard outbuilding (not inspected).
The stock feed factory ruins includes two walls of a presumed brick boiler house with a tapered brick bi-chromatic chimney stack with bracketed cornice in the manner of many similar structures now demolished. There is an attached timber and corrugated iron clad gable roofed building.
The well is capped by a three course bluestone operating platform with bluestone approach steps, the presumed hand pump having been replaced with a motorised pump within a small corrugated iron clad enclosure.
The shearers' quarters are a large gable roofed brick building with dressed bluestone sills to the windows which are either glazed or fitted with fixed timber louvres. Hit and miss gable end vents add visual interest to an otherwise utilitarian structure. The gable roof has a continuous louvred lantern and one wall has an early corrugated iron clad lean to addition. There are associated pitched sheep yards and a hitching rail.
Condition: Sound (except boiler house which is ruinous). Integrity: High except main house (medium) and bolier house (medium). There are also bunyah pines, peppercorns, currajong and an avenue of white cedars. History The first owner of 'Bridgewater Park', a 2000 acre property, was Mr Joel Horwood, President of Marong Shire in 1871, who bred stud pigs, cattle, and horses, amongst other stock, in large brick barns. He built an 80 ft. well, and erected a substantial chimney and engine boiler to put stock feed through a steam cooking process. An article in the Bendigo Advertiser in 1872 described the original homestead as 'standing in a most picturesque locality on the undulating and park like banks of the Loddon'. The article also mentioned the well from which water was pumped into an iron tank, then distributed around the property. Evidence of this industry still stands today at the property in the form of a red brick chimney and remains of the boiler house.
Joel Horwood was related to the iron founders in Bendigo. The property was sold to Mrs MacPherson in 1890.
Michael and Ann Coghlan arrived in Australia in 1865 from Cork, Ireland. They settled at Bridgewater in 1870 and built a flour mill upstream from the present bridge. After the flour mill, initially named the 'Bridgewater Flour Mill', and later the 'Steam Mill Co.', ceased operation in 1884, the Coghlan family bought a farm, and later purchased the homestead portion of 'Bridgewater Park' in 1898.
Descendants of the Coghlan family still live on the property and have, in recent years, rebuilt the homestead.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.4 Developing primary Context production.
Statement of "Bridgewater Park" was established as a stud in 1871 by Joel Horwood who Significance commenced Bendigo's earliest iron foundry in 1856 and lived at "Glendure" where he also owned with Robert Burrowes the Horwood and Burrowes Freehold Gold mine. The complex includes the farm house, detached closets, quarters and stables (bluestone), blacksmith's shop, stock feed factory ruins, well and brick shearing shed. It is situated off the Bridgewater Raywood Road north of Bridgewater-on-Loddon with a frontage to the Loddon River. It is historically, aesthetically and technically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as an early and substantial property in the district associated with Joel Horwood, Shire President for the former Shire of Marong for a period. Horwood was an important figure in Bendigo society and noteworthy for his foundry which was technically advanced and provided machinery not only for the Central Victorian goldfields but elsewhere, demonstrating Bendigo's leading role in the mining industry. It compares with other early properties in the locale including Michael Bourke's place on Powers Road, Woodstock on Loddon where the owner was also a councillor for the Shire of Marong and engaged in a range of industrial activities on his property, the evidence of which survives today. "Bridgwater Park", therefore, together with other similar complexes, demonstrates the mid Victorian practice of farmers engaging in both primary and secondary industrial activities at a time when primitive means of goods transport protected locally established industry. It is important also as an almost complete complex of its type retaining the characteristic elements of homestead, shearers quarters and stables.
It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as a substantially intact mid Victorian complex of its type with the main house, extensively restored but demonstrating self conscious stylism and a tendency to the Gothic Revival mode favoured by English and Colonial society but being supported by a series of utilitarian and well proportioned vernacular industrial buildings of the period.
The remains of the boiler house and chimney stack are technically important to the extent that they still demonstrate the infrastructure that was required to process stockfeed in the age of steam power, the chimney being representative of many stacks now demolished and therefore comparing today with the Sandhurst Rolling Stock Company's surviving stack in Bendigo and the remnants of Horwood's foundry. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over the removal of outbuildings and for inclusion in the Australian Heritage Commission Register.
References Hopkins, Ruth, Moving Forward Looking Back: The History of the Marong Shire. Shire of Marong, Bendigo, 1985, pp. 73-4 Mulwarrie (A Town on the River): A History of Bridgewater-on-Loddon Township and District 1836-1971. Back to Bridgewater Committee, 1971, p. 12 Research undertaken by Kevin Poyser, local resident. Butcher, M. and Flanders, G., "Bendigo Historic Buildings" National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1987, p.76. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Br8 Place "Greenmeadows"
Formerly
Address Turnbulls Road (375) Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 679479 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Brick, Great War period.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Br9 Place Loddon Bridge Hotel
Formerly
Address Main Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 629452 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An exceptionally grandiose late Inter War two storeyed brick and stuccoed hotel in the European Streamlined Moderne Style. The façade is arranged symmetrically about a central Art Deco influenced clinker brick, stuccoed and glass brick tower made up of vertical fins contrasting with the symmetrical sweeping curved balconies, balcony roofs and parapets in a manner characteristic of the Style. The iron work to the balconies is understated and also reinforces the horizontal dimension whilst clinker brick piers to the balconies reiterate the central feature of the façade. The bulk of the building behind the stepped façade section is contained within a hipped roof and there is an understated rear single storeyed wing. The public areas inside have been extensively altered.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History One of the first hotels in Bridgewater was established by the Samers family. It was built in 1860 on the west bank of the Loddon River near the Chinese gardens where Cobb and Co. coaches crossed the Loddon on Beavour Crossing. In 1862, with the building of the bridge across the river, the hotel was moved to the present site on the east bank. A new hotel, named the Loddon Bridge Hotel, was built in 1870, and was rebuilt in 1939- 1940 after a fire burnt the former building to the ground.
Changes have been made to the interior of the hotel, however from the outside the Loddon Bridge Hotel stands much as it did when it was rebuilt in 1930-1940.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11 Feeding people. 3.11.5. Context Retailing food and beverages.
Statement of The Loddon Bridge Hotel is situated on the east bank of the Loddon River at the Significance western entry to the town centre in Main Street, Bridgewater-on-Loddon. It was built in 1939-40 after a fire destroyed the earlier building erected during the initial phase in the settlement of the township. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a drinking place and accommodation house and also as a meeting and entertainment venue within the town since 1940.
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an architectural tour de force comparable with the former United Kingdom Hotel in Clifton Hill (1938) and the Commercial hotel, Kerang, and having an extraordinary impact on the character and identity of Bridgewater- on-Loddon. It is especially expressive of the Streamlined Moderne Style popularised during the Inter War years, the juxtaposition of vertical and horizontal elements and the dynamic nature of the composition causing this building to standout out at the State level, though eclipsed by the former United Kingdom Hotel in these respects. It is a supreme example of the style, however, in regional Victoria and unlike the former United Kingdom hotel remains in use for its original purpose. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion on the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Bridgewater-on-Loddon Heritage Overlay Area and for inclusion on the Australian Heritage Commission Register and the Victorian Heritage Register. References Mulwarrie (A Town on the River): A History of Bridgewater-on-Loddon Township and District 1836-1971. Back to Bridgewater Committee, 1971, pp. 24-5
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Br10 Place House
Formerly Family Hotel
Address Main Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 630452 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A two storeyed twelve roomed former hotel with stuccoed masonry surfaces, bracketed cornice and parapeted walls concealing a gently sloping corrugated iron clad roof and having symmetrically arranged openings to the façade with recessed panels to the parapet in a restrained manner representative of hotel design practices during the mid Victorian period. There is a recent balcony on the north (rear) side.
Condition: sound. Integrity: Medium, original balcony and later posted verandah demolished, openings bricked up, later cement facings. There is a mature garden at the rear of the hotel.
History Tenders were called for the erection of a two storey building in 1871, and the Family Hotel, consisting of some ten rooms, commenced operation in 1872 with Robert Boys as licensee. It ceased trading in 1919 but reopened temporarily during the years 1939- 40 when the Loddon Bridge Hotel was being rebuilt.
The building was renovated and converted into two flats, and a garden planted, in the 1950s.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11 Feeding people. 3.11.5. Context Retailing food and beverages.
Statement of The former Family Hotel in Main Street, Bridgewater-on-Loddon was built in 1871 and Significance closed in 1919 but re-opened briefly during construction of the nearby Loddon Bridge Hotel. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a very early hotel in the township, comparing with Condron's former Globe Hotel (1893) having served as a drinking place and accommodation house for approximately half a century. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a prominent element in the Main Street streetscape demonstrating representative design practices for hotels of the period which included understated facades depending on their proportions for effect and simple bracketed cornices. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion on the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Bridgewater-on-Loddon Heritage Overlay Area.
References Research undertaken by Kevin Poyser, local resident
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Br11 Place St. Andrew's Uniting Church
Formerly St. Andrew's Methodist Church
Address Main Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 630451 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A prominent complex of religious buildings dominating Main Street on account of their elevated position and spacious open grounds. The bi-chromatic brick Gothic Revival church is distinguished by its cream brick belcote at the gable apex and oculus vent in the gable end, the use of cream bricks imparting character and visual interest to the design especially in the way it gives emphasis to the elements including the copings extending upwards to the belcote. The side walls are subdivided into three equal buttressed bays, the plain south end suggesting that it may have been intended to take an extension never built.
The Sunday school hall is a representative presumed late Victorian timber villa without a verandah and there is a curious hip roofed addition at the rear that may have been relocated independantly to the site.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: high, includes associated bluestone retaining wall along the Main Street frontage, the entry steps and gate post and palm tree.
History The Methodists started services in Bridgewater, as part of the Tarnagulla circuit, in 1861. In 1868, Bridgewater became part of the Inglewood circuit. A timber church building was brought in from near Inglewood in 1869. It was used until the building which now houses the Uniting Church was erected in 1873 on two acres of land, reserved in 1869, in Main Street, Bridgewater.
The foundation stone for the church, one of many cut from basalt along the banks of the Loddon River, was laid by Joel Horwood of 'Bridgewater Park' in 1873. The brick and iron church, designed by Mr William Moore, measured 35 foot by 25 foot, seated 150 people, and was erected by Mr Joseph H. Harrison in 1873 at a cost £486. The money was raised through the conducting of bazaars, teas, and gifts. Additions, costing £21 and £60 were made in 1874 and 1877. A Sunday school, a converted house, was shifted to the site and opened in 1947.
The Uniting Church was formed in Australia in 1977 when members of the Congregational, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches united. The Bridgewater Methodist Church thus became the Uniting Church in that year.
Both buildings continue to be used today. Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The former St. Andrew's Methodist Church, now Uniting Church, in Main Street, Significance Bridgewater-on-Loddon was built in 1873, the present Sunday School hall being relocated to the site in 1947. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a centre of Protestant worship at Bridgewater- on-Loddon since 1873. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a prominent and highly successful though restrained design in the bi-chromatic mode especially characteristic of the Central goldfields, the treatment of the belcote and oculus being distinctive.
The origins of the small building attached to the rear of the Sunday School building have not been established and may impact on the cultural values of the place. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion on the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Bridgewater-on-Loddon Heritage Overlay Area.
References Mulwarrie (A Town on the River): A History of Bridgewater-on-Loddon Township and District 1836-1971. Back to Bridgewater Committee, 1971, pp. 50-1 Research undertaken by Kevin Poyser, local resident
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Br12 Place Holy Trinity Anglican Church
Formerly Holy Trinity Church of England
Address Main Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 633448 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An eclectic Inter War period brick and stuccoed church with gable roofed nave and engaged bell tower surmounting the porch. There is an apsidal end and attached vestry with jerkin head roof. A Gothic Revival ambience is established by the use of lancet arches and characteristic forms but the belltower has an Art Deco treatment whilst the brickwork uses bi-chromatic enrichment with reds and clinkers in a manner recalling the work of the previous century's architects in reds and creams. The buttress terminations to the façade are squared in the Arts and Crafts manner and the brickwork is enlivened with stuccoed banding, copings and associated detail.
Inside, the stuccoed walls have ashlar markings with timber dados. Exposed timber trusses support a plaster lined roof and the pews are timber.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History Anglican services of worship have been held at Bridgewater for over 100 years, first in the Mill store, and later in the Wesleyan school house. The original Holy Trinity Anglican Church was built of timber on the west bank of the Loddon River c1871.
On May 18th, 1929, Mr J. B. Howe, who also donated the two acres of land, laid the foundation stone of the new Holy Trinity Church in Bridgewater. In August, 1929, the Bishop of Bendigo, Rt. Rev. D. Baker, dedicated and opened the church which had been completed at a cost of £2,250. The Church was free of debt by 1949, and was consecrated in September of that year by Bishop C. L. Riley.
A vicarage was built in 1958.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The Holy Trinity Anglican Church is situated at the eastern end of Main Street, Significance Bridgewater-on-Loddon and was dedicated in August, 1929. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Church of England and more recently Anglican worship at Bridgewater since 1929. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a stylistically eclectic Inter War church demonstrating both architectural traditions and at the time current directions in architectural thinking, the juxtaposition of Gothic Revival, Art Deco, Arts and Crafts and established ecclesiastical design practices creating a unique building of its time. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Mulwarrie (A Town on the River): A History of Bridgewater-on-Loddon Township and District 1836-1971. Back to Bridgewater Committee, 1971, p. 49 Research undertaken by Kevin Poyser, local resident
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Br13 Place St. Peters Catholic Church
Formerly
Address Eldon Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 635448 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative and conservatively styled Catholic church of the Inter War period. Early English Gothic Revival elements include the steeply pitched roof with associated subordinate porch and apsidal sanctuary, attached vestry, diaper patterns in the main gable apex, quatrefoil gable end window, lancet arched openings, Arts and Crafts banding and buttresses with exaggerated stepped copings. Red body bricks are tuckpointed.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, includes crimped wire fence and mature peppercorns.
History Tenders for the erection of a weatherboard Roman Catholic church were called for in 1887, and a church built in the same year. In the years 1919 and 1920, Grand Balls were held at Bridgewater in aid of the building fund for a new Roman Catholic church. St. Peter's Catholic Church was subsequently built in 1926. The foundation stone was laid by His Grace the Bishop of Sandhurst, Right Reverend Dr. McCarthy on 17th. January of the same year.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The St. Peter's Catholic Church in Eldon Street, Bridgewater-on-Loddon was built in Significance 1926. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Catholic worship at Bridgewater- on-Loddon since 1926. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a representative Catholic Church of its period and the only building of this type in the township. It compares within the Shire with St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Boort. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Mulwarrie (A Town on the River): A History of Bridgewater-on-Loddon Township and District 1836-1971. Back to Bridgewater Committee, 1971, p. 51 Research undertaken by Kevin Poyser, local resident
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Br14 Place State School No.1097
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Address Eldon Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 634449 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A two roomed red brick school with Dutch gabled roof and cement cartouche facing Erskine Street reading "Bridgewater-on-Loddon School no. 1097". There are highlight windows to Erskine Street and a lean to addition facing east, classroom windows being situated in the north and south elevations.
There is a timber framed octagonal timber shelter with corrugated iron clad roof and latticework frieze affording ventilation in the playground and a second timber framed rectangular hipped roof store with similar lattice frieze.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, later doors and posted verandah to school.
History Bridgewater-on-Loddon opened in June, 1871 as a Common School vested in the Board of Education. A Board grant of £100, along with an amount of £100 raised by a local committee paid for the erection of a brick building to accommodate 60 pupils. Bridgewater became a State School in 1873, and was enlarged to accommodate 84 pupils in 1875. By 1877, 163 children were enrolled. In 1888 the school was repaired and again enlarged.
A new brick school of two rooms was erected in 1927 having been designed in 1925 by the Victorian Public Works Department during the term of office of E. Evan Smith as chief architect. It included an office and cloak room as a lean to on the east side.Two timber class rooms were added at Bridgewater in 1960 and 1963 to accommodate the increased enrolment caused by the closing of Memsie in 1939, and Derby, Bridgewater North and Yarraberb in 1950. Land was leased from the early 1950s for a ‘lamb- scheme’, undertaken to raise money for equipment.
Thematic 6. Educating. 6.2 Establishing schools. Context
Statement of The Bridgewater-on-Loddon school was built in 1927 to a design of the Victorian Public Significance Works Department during E.Evan Smith's term as chief architect and is situated at the corner of Erskine and Eldon Streets, Bridgewater. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the principal centre of education in the community since 1927. It is aesthetically utilitarian, the cartouche being of visual interest. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme
References Blake, L. J. (ed.) Vision and Realisation: A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria, Volume 2. Education Department of Victoria, Melbourne, 1973, p. 461. PWD drawing no. 1097.3: "Proposed new School no. 1097 Bridgewater-on-Loddon, signed by E. Evan smith, chief architect, 21/5/25.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Br15 Place Bridgewater Memorial Hall
Formerly Bridgewater Memorial hall and Free Library Address Park Street Bridgewater-on-Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 633449 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An imposing Classical Revival tuckpointed red brick and cement public building with timber section at the rear and granite piers to the memorial gateway at the front. The façade is symmetrical about a recessed porch with ticket window. There are rooms on either side forming the front section, the Classical Revival treatment extending around the sides of the building for the depth of the front section. The façade treatment is generally pilastrated, a permanent record of the district's war service being incised on marble tablets either side of the porch and incorporated in the piers which give emphasis to the entry. The entry piers are linked above by a bracketed cornice with surmounting capped terminations and curved parapet in the by this time distant Arts and Crafts mode. There is a frieze connecting the cornice with the outer coupled piers whilst the flat cement sill mould is continuous and encloses space for single windows either side of the entry. The upper sash of each window has a cross motif in lead light work. The sides of the hall, which has a gable roof mostly concealed behind the façade parapet, are subdivided by buttresses into bays with highlight windows and there is a rear gable roofed timber section.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, the rear timber section may pre-date the hall of 1923.
NB. The architect may have been Messrs. Beebe and Garvin of Bendigo.
History A mechanics’ institute was erected on this site c. 1880. In 1919, a public meeting was called to discuss a proposal for a new public hall. A subsequent meeting in 1922 developed plans which included the retaining of the mechanics’ institute supper-room to be placed behind the proposed new hall. The hall, flanked by two marble memorial tablets, was designed by Mr. Garvin, presumably of Bendigo, and built by Hansen and Murdoch of Eaglehawk in 1922 at a cost £2,084. After the foundation stone was laid by Colonel Hurry M.H.R., the hall opened in 1923. In 1926, the management committee installed an electric lighting plant at a cost of £220. With the running of regular ‘picture entertainments’, the building and plant were soon paid for. The present supper room was added some time after 1926.
In recent years, the hall has had a false ceiling installed to improve acoustics.
The design compares with memorial halls at Ballan (1920s), Beulah (1921), Elmore (1925),Pyramid Hill (1925) and the Rushworth Mechanics Institute (1913). Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.5 Forming associations. 8.8 Context Remembering the fallen.
Statement of The Bridgewater-on-Loddon Memorial Hall and Free Library building was erected in Significance 1922-23 at the corner of Eldon and Erskine Streets, Bridgewater. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its associations with the Mechanics Institute movement and as a public memorial hall commemorating the involvement of the district in the Great War and the Second World War. Its importance rests also on its role as a public meeting place and entertainment venue at Bridgewater since 1927.
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an unusually imposing building of its type and period, the Classical Revival façade treatment, though representative of its time, comparing closely with only a small number of similar places but with many less imposing timber structures erected by small communities after the Great War. The building's presumed association with the noted Bendigo architects, Beebe and Garvin, enhances the significance of the place by offering a further insight into the work of this firm. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with the front gates being not exempt from the provisions of Clause 43.01-4.
References Pam Baragwanath in Baragwanath, P., Hodgson, J., "An Inventory of Mechanics' Institutes in Victoria", 9/98, v.1, pp.150-151 Mulwarrie (A Town on the River): A History of Bridgewater-on-Loddon Township and District 1836-1971. Back to Bridgewater Committee, 1971, pp. 56-7 Research undertaken by Kevin Poyser, local resident Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2000 Loddon Heritage Study De1 Place Derby Public Hall
Formerly
Address Calder Highway Derby
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 321406 Leichardt 7724-4-3
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An unusually large timber framed public hall with principal gable roof intersecting with cross ridged gable ends to the north and south, the façade having a later flat roofed porch. There is a timber dado and corrugated iron clad linings above with timber linings to the gable ends having fixed louvre vents. The roof is corrugated iron clad.
Condition: Sound, maintenance needed. Integrity: High
History The Derby Hall opened c1925 on land purchased from Charles Braddy. It was firstly built as a single large room approximately 30 feet by 15 feet and enlarged in 1934 to include a porch at the front and a stage, dressing-room and supper room at the rear.
The Hall was built adjacent to a recreation ground planted on its boundaries with sugar gums in the 1940s. The reserve and hall formed the focus of community life in Derby for many years. From the 1920s, annual sports carnivals including horse racing and athletics were held on the recreation ground. Special buses were run from Bendigo to transport visitors to the event. The sports carnivals ceased with the advent of World War II. The recreation ground was also used by local football and cricket teams.
Funds for the hall and to construct sporting facilities on the reserve were raised through dances and gymkhanas. Dances were held regularly in the 1950s. In 1958, a gala ‘switching on’ ceremony was held to celebrate the arrival of electricity to the district.
The Hall is used today for social events, including regular tennis matches, and funds are raised through the regular felling of limbs from the sugar gums, the timber being sold for firewood.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.5. Forming associations. 8.8 Context Remembering the fallen.
Statement of The Derby Public Hall is situated on the Calder Highway at Derby and was opened Significance c.1925. It is historically important. It is historically important (Criterion A) as the centre of recreational and social activities in the Derby District since c.1925 and for its capacity to recall the provision of other public facilities at Derby including the post office, State school (closed 1953) and railway station (closed 1972). Today, the public hall stands as a witness to a community's isolated way of life relieved significantly by activities focussed on the public hall. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Robert Pollock, Secretary, Derby Hall
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study CF1 Place Farm house site
Formerly
Address Campbells Forest West Road Campbells Forest
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 386432 Yarraberb 7724--4-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Mud brick building, cellars (filled), artefacts.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study CF2 Place Former post office and farm house (ruins)
Formerly Campbells Forest Post Office
Address Campbells Forest West Road Campbells Forest
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 426452 Yarraberb 7724-4-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A ruinous representative single fronted hipped roofed symmetrical timber farmhouse with bullnosed verandah, lean to at rear and collapsed rear section. There are the remains of Murray Pine log structure to the east and garden remnants including a palm and peppercorns.
Condition: Ruinous. Integrity: Medium, post office appears to have collapsed.
History Land in 20 acre lots was taken up by selectors in the Campbells Forest area under the 1865 Land Act, and in 320 acre lots under an amendment to this act in 1869. With the breaking up of the Yarraberb estate by the Soldier Settlement Commission in 1948, another wave of settlement took place.
The Campbells Forest Post Office opened in February 1876 at the Campbells Forest School. The post office shifted to this site in the same year. A telephone office was opened in the post office in 1923 and an exchange in 1949. The post office closed in 1974.
Today, the post office building is in a ruinous condition.
Thematic 7. Governing. 7.5. Developing administrative structures and authorities. Context
Statement of The former Campbells Forest post office was established in this building on the Significance Campbells Forest West Road, Campbells Forest, in 1876. It was closed in 1974 and has been abandoned for some time. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to demonstrate the Post and Telegraph Department's former practice of establishing small post offices in privately owned houses. This significance is also established by the capacity of the place to demonstrate the existence of Campbells Forest as a discrete community with its own facilities including post office and public hall (extant). The significance of the place is diminished by the collapse of the presumed rear post office. The place compares with other closed post offices in the Shire of Loddon at Dingee and Mologa.
The associated ruinous Murray Pine structure is of interest for its capacity to demonstrate the availability of this timber in the locale as well as being a now rare form of construction. Recommendations Not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme because of the ruinous condition of the place and the building's loss of any features especially distinguishing the post office.
References Wallace, Ray, "Shades of the Past: A History of Campbells Forest and Yarraberb". Raywood, Campbells Forest and Back-to Committee, 1993, pp. 18-19. VPP, Session for 1877-78, v.2: Report of the Post and Telegraph Department for 1876.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2000 Loddon Heritage Study CF3 Place Farm house
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Address Campbells Forest West Road Campbells Forest
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. see note on: Yarraberb 7724-4-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Timber farm house.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study CF4 Place Campbells Forest Public Hall
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Address Loddon Valley Highway Campbells Forest
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. see note on : Yarraberb 7724-4-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A utilitarian gable roofed timber framed public hall with lean to addition at the east end. There are double hung timber framed windows and recent flush panel doors.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: medium, recent doors, porch on north side, metal weatherboard cladding conceals oculus vent in gable end, king post gable end decoration removed.
History Land in 20 acre lots was taken up by selectors in the Campbells Forest area under the 1865 Land Act, and in 320 acre lots under an amendment to this act in 1869. With the breaking up of the Yarraberb estate by the Soldier Settlement Commission in 1948, another wave of settlement took place.
The Campbells Forest Hall was built in 1910, at a cost of £210, on one acre of land. It was built by Frank Fitzpatrick and officially opened in 1911.
The Hall was used for a variety of functions: the Campbells Forest Football Club used the Hall as change rooms at home games; The Britannia Picture Company showed films in 1918; and in 1948 a ball was held to celebrate the turning on of the electric lights. The Red Cross held meetings there during the wars. The peak time of use of the Hall was during the 1930s, when dances, kitchen teas and concerts were conducted.
Large trees in the yard were cut down and grubbed in 1956-7. The Hall had fallen into disrepair by the 1980s. Money for its maintenance was raised through selling fox skins, baling straw, and through grants from the Shire of Marong. In 1992 a grant from the Shire provided for the building of a new toilet block.
The Hall is still used today and contains Honour Rolls commemorating district locals who served in World War I and II.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.5. Forming associations. Context Statement of The Campbells Forest public hall is situated on the Loddon Valley Highway at the Significance Bridgewater-Sebastian Road corner, Campbells Forest. It was built in 1910, officially opened in 1911 and remains in use today. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a meeting place and entertainment venue for the Campbells Forest farming community since 1910. It survives today as the only public building at Campbells Forest and bears testimony to the identity of the locale since 1910.
Reconstruction of the king post decoration and oculus gable vent would recover the aesthetic significance of the place. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Wallace, Ray, Shades of the Past: A History of Campbells Forest and Yarraberb. Raywood, Campbells Forest and Back-to Committee, 1993, pp. 58-60. Baragwanath, P., Hodgson, J., "An Inventory of Mechanics' Institutes in Victoria", 9/98, v.1, pp.195-96. "Shades of the Past" (Back to Campbells Forest Souvenir) 1993. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jun 2000 Loddon Heritage Study L1 Place Loddon River (Janevale) bridge
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Address Loddon River crossing: Laanecoorie - Tarn Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 583204 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A substantial unpainted reinforced concrete road bridge with eight main spans and a single approach span at either end. The concrete carriageway is supported on four concrete beams, the concrete piles being raked and having three horizontal ties each for the main spans. The entire structure is subdivided into ten equal spans of 12.8 metres of which the inner eight are continuous, attaining a maximum height of c. 12 metres. Railing supports are of angle iron with pipe rails, later intermediate wires and brackets carrying services and giving stability to the balustrade.
The Laanecoorie pumping station and offtake are located at the west end of the bridge. At the town end there is a Roberts and Sons (Sandhurst 1870) street lamp standard (lamp removed) surmounting a grey granite memorial stone erected by the Shire of Marong to mark the opening of the bridge on 9th. August, 1911, the engineer at the time being George.S. Read.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History The Janevale Monier (named from the nearby ‘Janevale’ homestead) bridge was constructed in 1911 to replace an old wooden bridge washed away in floods. It was designed by Sir John Monash, engineer, soldier and administrator, and best known for his skilled command of troops on the Western Front. Constructed of ten spans each of 12.8 metres long, the first pier at each end was made double, with one frame to support the approach span and the other cast integrally with the inner spans, and designed to deflect inwards at its top to accommodate shrinkage. The ‘open ridge frames’ were recognised by Monash as an unusual feature of his design.
In 1939 additional stirrups were added, and the bridge was restored in 1987.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.7.3. Moving goods and people on land. 3.7.3.2. Building and maintaining roads.
Statement of The bridge over the Loddon River at Laanecoorie, known as the Janevale Bridge, was Significance built in 1911 for the Shire of Marong to a design by John Monash of the Reinforced Concrete and Monier Pipe Company. It is historically and technically important. It is historically important (Criterion A) as the second important reinforced concrete bridge erected in Victoria, following the Broken River bridge at Benalla of 1910, also designed by John Monash. It is also technically innovative (Criterion F) as an early girder bridge of its type, the spans being .6 metre greater than the Broken River bridge and the entire structure surviving, unlike the Broken River bridge, in a substantially intact state. Although representative of early T-beam construction, the bridge exhibits the rare use of splayed trestle piers in reinforced concrete, reminiscent of traditional timber bridges, and is a departure from Monash's earlier designs in Victoria. The bridge was also the largest reinforced concrete girder bridge designed and built by John Monash of the Reinforced Concrete and Monier Pipe Company and the largest bridge of its kind built in Victoria and possibly Australia prior to the Great War. It is for these reasons rare (Criterion B) and offers a valuable early insight into the development of reinforced concrete bridge construction in Victoria, O'Connor noting (see references) that reinforced concrete girder construction in Victoria became commonplace after this time. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register and for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme. Inclusion on the Register of the National Estate confirmed.
References Lewis, M., "Two Hundred Years of Concrete in Australia", Concrete Institute of Australia, 1988, pp.41,42, 59. Graeme Butler and Associates, Historic Places in the Box-Ironbark Investigation Area, for the LCC, n.d., p. 158 National Estate Register data base, 1999 Alves,L., Holgate,A., Taplin,G., Monash Bridges: Typological Study Reinforced concrete bridges in Victoria 1897-1917, 1998, Monash University Faculty of Engineering and Arts, pp.105-07. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1999 Loddon Heritage Study L2 Place Laanecoorie Public Hall
Formerly
Address Maldon Road Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 587203 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A late nineteenth century public hall with rear additions. The hall has a corrugated iron clad gabled roof with timber framed weatherboard clad walls and with additions at the side and to the rear. There is a porch with jerkin head roof at the front and a recent brick library at the rear. The porch retains the upper light of the former front doors formerly with the words "Hall Est'd 1890" in the three panes. Today, the original front doors to the porch have been replaced with side doors. There is a gable vent, formerly obscured by king post enrichment with decorative fretted linings, the façade composition being symmetrical with windows either side of the porch having shouldered heads. The windows originally had the words "Mechanics Institute" painted on them.
Condition: Sound Integrity: Medium, picket fences and gates replaced.
History The community of Laanecoorie (also known as Janevale) was established around the school built in 1864. With the opening of a bridge across the Loddon at Laanecoorie in 1870, the township of Laanecoorie flourished. By 1879, it consisted of a number of businesses and a population of 150.
After a number of public meetings called for the purpose of erecting a mechanics’ institute and free library, such a building was begun in 1889. A contract for £230 was let to erect a hall of 40 feet by 24 feet with two ante rooms on allotment 15 section 6 of the township of Laanecoorie. The tender of Mr Bowman was finally accepted and the new hall, which also housed a library, was opened in June 1890 by Sir John McIntyre, MLA, and a banquet and ball held in celebration. Money was still owed on the hall, however the committee worked hard to raise the funds to build footpaths, gardens and a fence. A new wing was added to the hall in 1898.
The hall was further extended in 1938 by 16 feet at a cost of £150.
A new brick library with supper rooms was built in 1962, and further painting and decorating completed in 1966. Another brick portion was built by Mr Roger Tirell of Newbridge in 1990 to replace the old reading and committee rooms.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.5 Forming associations. Context Statement of The Laanceoorie public hall, Mechanics Institute and Free Library is located in the Significance centre of the Laanecoorie township on the Maldon road. It was built by a Mr. Bowman to the design of an unknown architect in 1890, being opened on 1st. August in that year. It is historically, aesthetically and socially significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Mechanics Institute activities in Laanecoorie since 1890, the tradition of community service continuing today. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a surviving late Victorian timber hall of considerable size, its original appearance, which could be readily recovered, being noteworthy for its ornamentation and signage, representative for its time, its set back with public space originally defined by picket fences and gates and the dominant location in the centre of Laanecoorie township. It is socially significant (Criterion G) for the value placed on the venue today by the town people and district population, a perception shorn up by the closure of public and business services elsewhere in the township over recent years. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Sources: Arnold, Edna and Ken, Tarnagulla and District – the Way it Was, Crown Casleton Publishers, Golden Square, 1992, pp. 63-4 Cain, Jennifer E., Laanecoorie: Hub of the Universe, n.p. n.d. Baragwanath, P., Hodgson, J., An Inventory of Mechanics Institutes in Victoria, v.2, pp.535-36. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study L3 Place "Lovers' Walk"
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Address Maldon Road Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 598199 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A picturesque mature River Red gum avenue marking the eastern approach to the Bradford Creek east of the Laanecoorie township. It is distinguished by its slightly curved alignment resulting in a gradually unfolding vista, the narrow carriageway and by the continuous arched canopy. The avenue is approximately 200 metres long and there is a recent extension at the west end.
History ‘Lovers’ Walk’ is an avenue of River Red Gums growing on the east entrance to Laanecoorie. The avenue has been used by the local community for a number of years as a place for promenading and as a picnic spot. There is no information as to when these trees were planted; new plantings of River Red Gums have been added to the avenue on the west.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life Context
Statement of "Lovers' Walk" is situated on the Bendigo - Laanecoorie road at the Bradford Creek Significance immediately to the east of the Laanecoorie township. Whilst its origins are unclear, this avenue was a popular venue for picnics and taking a stroll during the Inter War period and earlier. It is aesthetically and socially significant.
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a highly picturesque and distinctive feature of the eastern entry to the township of Laanecoorie complementing the historically important Janevale bridge over the Loddon River on the other side of the town centre. It is socially significant (Criterion G) as a valued locale in the lives of Laanecoorie's older inhabitants who grew up in an era when motorized transport and modern forms of entertainment were less commonly available and who as a consequence were more dependant on the natural attributes of the town and its environs for relaxation. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over tree removal.
References
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study L4 Place "Laudamus"
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Address Corner Maldon and Eddington Roads Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 587203 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A secluded hip roofed single fronted Victorian period timber cottage with overpainted brick chimneys having dogs' tooth ornamentation and a partially rebuilt posted verandah to two elevations including the façade. The latter was originally symmetrical with a centrally placed doorway but there is now an addition to one side with its own hipped roof treatment.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium, the verandah lace work and turned timber posts appear to post date the house which has been added onto at the side and rear. The garden is highly picturesque, being concealed from public view by a mature cypress hedge and having two Canary island palms, both understood to have been planted during the 1920s.
History Allen Brownbill opened an agency for Victorian Producers in Laanecoorie c1920. He was active in buying oats, wheat, barley, sheep and cattle grown in the region, and selling the produce to the Victorian Producers parent company situated in Melbourne. Allen went on to become a councillor and president of the Bet Bet Shire and was awarded the British Empire Medal in recognition of his ongoing services to the community.
Allen married Rosie Graham in 1922 and they built their family home ‘Laudamus’ soon after on this site which was above the Loddon River flood level. It is believed that part of the house (most likely the original Victorian weatherboard cottage section) was transported to the site and the rest of the house subsequently added. A billiard room was added on the east in the 1930s and a rear section added in the 1980s on the south.
Canary Island palms and the substantial hedge framing the house on two sides are believed to have been planted in the 1920s.
Relatives of the original Brownbill family continue to live in the house today.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Laanecoorie). Context Statement of "Laudamus" is situated on the south-west corner of the Maldon and Eddington roads Significance and was built for Allen Brownbill and his wife Rosie soon after their marriage in 1922. It is understood that the original house was relocated to its present position at this time. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the home of Allen Brownbill, a former councillor and president of the Bet Bet Shire who was recognised for his community service by being awarded the British Empire medal. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a substantial and well established early property within the central area of this very small township, the origins of the original timber house being unclear. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over tree removal.
References Cain, Jennifer E., Laanecoorie: Hub of the Universe, n.p. n.d. Lorna Handbury, owner
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study L5 Place "Loch Loddon"
Formerly "Loddon Bridge" hotel
Address Maldon Road Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 584203 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A substantially intact single storeyed timber hotel with corrugated iron clad gabled roof form and convex timber posted verandah to the façade and east facing elevation. The windows are double hung and the bar door at the east end of the façade together with the other principal exterior doors remain in situ. The façade is lined with ashlar boards whilst the secondary elevations have square edged weatherboad linings.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, timber parapet with the name "Laanecoorie Bridge Hotel" painted on it removed.
History The community of Laanecoorie (also known as Janevale) was established around the school built in 1864. With the opening a bridge across the Loddon at Laanecoorie in 1870, the township of Laanecoorie flourished. By 1879, it consisted of a number of businesses and a population of 150.
The Laanecoorie Bridge Hotel was in operation by September, 1871. Thomas Grisold took over the licence in 1872 and ran the hotel (with his daughter) until the freehold was sold in January, 1910 for £1460. The Tarnagulla and Llanelly Courier of November 30th, 1872 described the Laanecoorie Bridge Hotel: After crossing the bridge…we are confronted by the Laanecoorie Hotel a pleasant and commodious building owned and occupied by Mr T. Grisold. The house is pleasantly situated at a short distance from the bridge, and in addition to the usual stabling and other outhouse conveniences, Mr Grisold carries on a blacksmith’s and wheelwright’s establishment so that any breakdowns or mishaps to vehicles can easily and expeditiously be repaired on the spot.
Mr Grisold also owned a boat which could be used by patrons on the river.
The hotel is used today as a private residence.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11. Feeding people. 3.11.5 Context Retailing foods and beverages. Statement of The former "Loddon Bridge" hotel, now a private residence called "Loch Loddon", is Significance situated at the eastern approach to the Loddon River bridge near the former general store at Laanecoorie. It had been built for Thomas Grisold by September, 1871. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the sole surviving hotel building in Laanecoorie. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a substantially intact single storeyed timber hotel being noteworthy as a fine example of its type. Its position on the bend in the road as it approaches the east end of the Loddon River bridge is critical to the extent that it enables the early form of the Laanecoorie centre to be readily interpreted. As a small timber hotel building, it compares with the "Railway" hotel at Dingee and Grant's former hotel at Mologa within the Shire. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Arnold, Edna and Ken, Tarnagulla and District – the Way it Was, Crown Casleton Publishers, Golden Square, 1992, p. 115 Cain, Jennifer E., Laanecoorie: Hub of the Universe, n.p. n.d.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study L6 Place School building (closed) and playground
Formerly Laanecoorie State School no. 733
Address 53 Barber Road Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 603200 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A Post Federation timber former school building having square edged weatherboards separated from shingled weatherboards beneath the eaves by a timber mould. There is a Dutch gabled ventilated roof form to the single classroom with a north facing wing formerly accommodating wash basins and cloaks. The main windows are double hung with glazing bars in the Public Works Department's characteristic style for schools and there is timber ornamentation to the entry, the door itself having been replaced. The former half timbered motif to the principle gable end has been recently replaced (since the view in this data sheet) with horizontal weatherboards but the decorartive brackets supporting this element have been conserved.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium. The large extensions to the west are recent and the half timbering to the main gable end has been removed. Surviving evidence of the prefabricated unit forming a part of the school has not been identified.
History Laanecoorie school No. 733 was built in 1863 and opened in 1864 under the Denominational System after a petition from residents stated the need for a school in the area. It was built of locally-made bricks by Thomas Cridley of Eddington for £90. The school, a shingle-roofed building of 30 feet by 16 feet, became the centre of the Laanecoorie community. A school residence was also built by Cridley in 1865. The school committee consisted of local residents who represented various religious denominations.
The school became State School No. 733 in 1872; in 1875 the attendance was 102 students.
A new school building, accommodating 70 students, was erected in 1908 by carpenters from Maldon. The design was prepared by Public Works Department architect, S.E. Bindley in May, 1906, construction following in June of that year. According to one of the apprentices from Maldon who worked on the new school, part of the building ‘was a pre- fab cut in Calder's Timber Yard, railed to Melbourne and carted to the site by one Mr Fitzpatrick.’ A new teacher’s residence was documented in 1909-10 and finally built in 1938.
A well and windmill to supply water to the garden were established on site in 1912. Toilets, a fence, and wash houses were also built.
A ‘Back to’ to celebrate the school’s centenary was held at the school in 1964. As part of the celebrations, memorial gates were unveiled. Today, the building is privately owned.
Thematic 6. Educating. Context 6.2 Establishing Schools.
Statement of The former State School no. 733 at Laanecoorie is situated at no. 53 Barber Road east Significance of the township and was built in 1906 to the design of the Public Works Department architect, S.E. Bindley. It is historically and aesthetically important.
It is historically important (Criterion A) as the centre of Government sponsored education at Laanecoorie from 1906 until recent years. It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as a representative example of the work of the Department during the Edwardian period, the defacement sustained diminishing this importance. The connection of the design with S.E. Bindley is of note, Bindley being a prominent schools architect following the transfer of school building from the Education Department to the PWD in 1883, his designs also for the Parkville post office and Frankston line railway stations enhancing our understanding of this important architect's work.
Evidence of the prefabricated work known to have been associated with this school would enhance the cultural value of the place. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Arnold, Edna and Ken, Tarnagulla and District – the Way it Was, Crown Casleton Publishers, Golden Square, 1992, p. 61 Cain, Jennifer E., Laanecoorie: Hub of the Universe, n.p. n.d. Ministry of Housing and Construction (Historic Buildings Branch): Survey of Historic Government Schools in Victroia Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study L7 Place Uniting Church
Formerly Primitive Methodist Chapel
Address Langdon Road Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 601200 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A partially rebuilt rebuilt mid Victorian Gothic Revival brick church distinguished by the interlaced lancet arched treatment to the nave walls which were formerly subdivided by buttresses into two bays, the whole building having been extended for an additional third bay, the windows and doorway to this later work having Romanesque arches. There is a continuous moulded brick course at sill level whilst the façade is unusual for the surmounting cartouche reading ‘Methodist Church 1869’ and the juxtaposition of lancet and pseudo four centred arches, the brickwork generally being set slightly forward of the buttresses.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Roof reconstructed and original gable end with oculus vent lowered. There is a contributory bell tower in the grounds, established pine and a mature kurrajong.
History Primitive Methodist services were held in the Laanecoorie area from the 1860s with the first church missioned from Tarnagulla and built in a paddock near the Bridgewater- Maldon and Bendigo-Maryborough Roads crossroad. During the ministry of Rev. J. T. Pithouse, the foundation stone for a new church was laid in 1869. A tender from Serale and Co. was accepted. The Tarnagulla Courier, on September 25th, 1869 reported the laying of the foundation stone on September 17th 1869 by Mr T. Scorer of Tarnagulla, and the placing of newspapers of the day, the names of the church building committee and contractors, and details of church services in a cavity under the stone.
It is believed that the original church building was enlarged in 1906 when the congregation of the Laanecoorie Wesleyan Church joined with the Primitive Methodist members.
The church has ‘Methodist Church 1869’ inscribed above the entrance door and a substantial pine grows in its grounds. It continues to be used as a place of worship by the Uniting Church.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6. Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship. Statement of The former Primitive Methodist chapel at Laanecoorie is situated on Langdon Road to Significance the east of the township and was built in 1869 by Messrs. Serale and Co. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Primitive Methodism from 1869 and for subsequent amalgamation with the Wesleyans from 1906 followed by union with the Presbyterians and Congregationalists in 1977. This significance is enhanced by the continuing use of the building as a place of worship. It is of aesthetic interest for the interlaced lancet arches and other details demonstrating the early date of the building. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over tree removal.
References Cain, Jennifer E., Laanecoorie: Hub of the Universe, n.p. n.d.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study L8 Place Weir
Formerly
Address Loddon River Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 578195 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The elements of this weir include the earth weir wall punctuated by a broad concrete paved bye-wash and a reinforced concrete wall with metal sluice gates regulating the flow of water from the weir itself into the Loddon River on its way north towards Bridgewater and beyond. There are reinforced concrete abutments to the weir wall with decorative terminations. There are also low level outlets and a stepped pavement on the east side. The concrete wall has a steel framed footbridge of 8 spans runnning between the east bank and the earth weir wall. It contains a platform supporting the regulating devices including four sluice gate valves operated by geared cast iron hand wheels that control the flow of water through the low level outlets.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: reconstructed at various times as noted. There is an associated caretaker's house and O'Keefe's preserved stone crushing wheels used for consolidating the dam at the time of construction.
History The Water Conservancy Board formed in 1880 devised a system of supplying water from the Loddon River for domestic, stock and irrigation purposes. It was proposed to supply water to an area of the northern plains comprising some 1200 square miles between the parishes of Terrick Terrick West on the east and Jeruk on the west, and extending from Bridgewater in the south to Kerang in the north. The Loddon United Water Trust, constituted in 1882, became the responsible body for the construction of the system.
As headworks for this system, the Laanecoorie Weir, one of the first national storages, was commenced in 1889 by contractor Andrew O’Keefe. Engineers Stuart Murray and Carlo Catani worked as co-designers on the project. The J.A. Robert's United Iron Works of Bendigo produced and fixed in place at the Weir the largest valves in the colony. The Weir, holding 610 million cubic feet (17,000 ML), was completed c1895 at about a cost of £170,200. The works included a concrete weir wall, the remaining part of the barrage being an earthen dam with a core wall running down to bedrock. The height of the concrete weir from river bed to crest was 34 feet and there were to be automatic flood gates along the top hanging from cast iron standards. They were to be 3 feet high and 320 feet long. The works were completed by March 1891 following several setbacks brought about by the flooding of the river. It was at this time that D.J. Duggan and Co. auctioned off the surplus plant. The Weir’s earth wall burst in 1909 after a period of heavy rains. The resultant flood waters caused extensive damage, especially to areas around Bridgewater. Repairs to the Weir were completed in 1910. Laanecoorie Weir was enlarged in 1935, and in 1948, major reconditioning of the 24 flood gates commenced. It is now operated by Goulburn Murray Water.
The Laanecoorie Weir has been promoted in recent years as part of a heritage bicycle tour.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities. 4.2. Supplying urban services (water) Context
Statement of The Laanecoorie weir is located across the Loddon River to the south of the Significance Laanecoorie township off the Newbridge Laanecoorie Eddington road. Construction was commenced in 1889 by the Bendigo contractor Andrew O'Keefe, the weir being designed by Stuart Murray and Carlo Catani for the Loddon United Water Trust. Major re-construction works were undertaken in 1910, 35 and 48. The weir is historically and technically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the headworks for the supply of water for stock, domestic and irrigation purposes for the northern plains from Bridgewater in the south to Kerang in the north. Its associations with Andrew O'Keefe, prominent nineteenth century railway contractor whose father Edward had undertaken works for the Coliban Scheme is also of note as is its design by Stuart Murray and Carlo Catani, both chief engineers for the Victorian Water Supply Department. It is technically significant (Criterion F) on account of the regulating valves and associated mechanisms and other works which demonstrate civil and mechanical designs techniques at the time of construction towards the end of the nineteenth century. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in Register of the National Estate and in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme. A State wide survey of comparable structures may lead to a high level of significance than has been recommended. References Arnold, Edna and Ken, Tarnagulla and District – the Way it Was, Crown Casleton Publishers, Golden Square, 1992, pp. 62-3 Sharland, Michael, Those Verdant Plains. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971, pp. 79 & 88 Powell, J. M., Watering the Garden State: Water, Land and Community in Victoria 1834- 1988. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1989, p.146 Healy, M., Railways and Pastures The Australian O'Keefes, Richmond, 1988, pp.84-90. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study N1 Place Church of St. John the Evangelist complex
Formerly
Address Kangaroo Flat - Newbridge Road Newbridge
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 596296 Inglewood South 7624-1-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A complex of two stylistically similar poly-chrome brick buildings consisting of a church and hall. The church is in the Gothic Revival mode having a four bayed nave subdivided with buttresses, a side porch and belcote. Orange/red body bricks are relieved with white dressings giving emphasis to the buttresses, lancet arched openings and belcote by means of alternating red and white bands in the Sienese manner. There is also blackened brick banding. The belcote is characteristic of the architects' work in its concentration of detail with subtended corbelled panel surmounting the west window.There are spherical triangular widows to the porch and gable end and the opening to accommodate the proposed chancel has been bricked up.
The hall is in a similar though less enriched Early English Gothic Revival style, visual interest being heightened by the buttresses and lancet arched openings with bands in the Sienese manner. The body of the hall is subdivided into three buttressed bays and the front door is surmounted by a spherical oculus. At the rear, the chimney divides the plain rear wall into two parts, the stack being set on an angle to create visual interest.
Condition: Sound, evidence of rising damp. Integrity: High, presumed stained glass work to west window and slates to roof removed. Oaks, spruce, peppercorns and camphor laurels nearby.
History St. John’s Anglican Church was built in 1864 by contractor John Nottage of Castlemaine. Designed by Messrs. Vahland and Getzschmann of Sandhurst, it replaced a small iron building used for Anglican church services since 1862 on the same site. The Inglewood Advertiser described the future church building thus:
The building will be of red bricks, variegated with white as in St. Augustine’s Church, Inglewood. The style is early English. The Church when complete will consist of nave, south porch, and chancel, and will accommodate some 150 worshippers. The cost for the nave and porch (the chancel being omitted for the present) will exceed £600, and it is hoped will be ready for opening in the course of three or four weeks.
The corner stone of the new Church of St. John the Evangelist was laid in June, 1864 by the Ven. the Archdeacon of Castlemaine. Celebrations on the day were attended by 300 people and included religious services and a march by local school children and the Band of Hope. A lecture on the ‘Early History of the Church in Ireland’ was given in the evening.
The Church was opened in October, 1864 before a large crowd of visitors from Tarnagulla, Dunolly and Inglewood. The Inglewood Advertiser reported that:
The body of the church measures 45 by 25 feet within the walls. The western end is enriched with a very fine gothic window, having moulded mullions and fitted with richly stained glass. The gable above is fitted with a bell turret, well adapted in design and construction to the building it surmounts. The church has, on its north side, a massive and spacious porch fitted with large doors enriched and fitted in accordance with the style of the building. The roof is an open arch, rib trussed, and covered with slates. The whole of the timbers are beautifully wrought and stained a rich oak colour. Immediately over the communion table a lofty chancel arch has been formed, and preparations are already on foot for having the arch opened and the chancel erected…
Church services were held throughout the day and an evening tea meeting organised in the former church building to mark the occasion of the opening of the Church of St. John. The Church was consecrated in April, 1866 by Bishop Perry of Melbourne.
Church services continue to be held in the building.
It is believed that the other brick building on this site was used as a school by St. John’s Church c1865. It was later used by the Church as a Sunday school hall. It was purchased by the local R.S.L. branch in 1953 and continues to be used by this organisation as a meeting room.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The Church of St. John the Evangelist is situated on the Kangaroo Flat-Newbridge Significance Road, east of Newbridge. It was designed by the noted firm of Bendigo architects. Vahland and Getzschmann and built in 1864. The associated hall, purchased by the RSL branch in 1953, is presumed to have been built c.1865. The complex is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Anglican worship at Newbridge since 1865, recalling the importance of Newbridge as an agricultural centre supporting the nearby goldfields at the time. Its association with the prolific Bendigo architects Vahland and Getzschmann is important enabling comparisons to be made with with other examples of their churches in the region including St. Mary's Kangaroo Flat (1862), St. Lukes, White Hills (1863) and St. Augustine's, Inglewood (1864). The complex is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a highly picturesque country parish complex, enhanced by its isolated location and for its forthright architectural treatment to which distinction has been imparted by the treatment of the brickwork generally, by the belcote and porch to the church and by the chimney to the hall. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Inglewood Advertiser, April 13th, June 4th, June 16th, October 15th, 1864 ‘Welcome to Newbridge’, Pamphlet, Newbridge Progress Association, n.d.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2001 Loddon Heritage Study Mi7 Place House
Formerly National Bank and quarters.
Address Glossop Street Mitiamo
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 510890 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A dominant gable roofed timber framed former bank building at the principal corner of the township. The roof is corrugated iron clad with a small gable end vent and there is a small timber framed "shop" window by the door to the presumed former banking chamber. The façade is protected by a posted verandah, the timber posts having been partially replaced with pipe column construction. There is a rear brick chminey and double hung windows on the side wall at the property alignment facing Haig Street. A gable roofed residential wing is attached on the west side and separated from it by the residential entrance. The entire complex is utilitarian in appearance.
Condition: Sound, maintenance needed. Integrity: High.
History A National Bank agency, under the management of the Pyramid Hill National Bank, was opened at the Mitiamo Hall in December, 1890. It operated on Fridays. In February 1904, the agency increased its hours of operation to Tuesdays and Saturdays. A permanent branch was opened in Mitiamo in 1920 and operated until 1942.
The building today is used as a private residence.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Mitiamo). Context
Statement of The former National Bank building and quarters is situated at the corner of Glossop and Significance Haig Streets, Mitiamo and may have been built in 1920. It is historically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a utilitarian commercial building surviving as the only building of its type in Mitiamo, the stores to the immediate east in Glossop Street and Joffre Street at the railway station having been demolished during the Post war period. It recalls the former strategic importance of Mitiamo to its district and shares this status with the presumed later hotel diagonally opposite, the two buildings constituting the centre of town. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table and the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Sharland, Michael, Those Verdant Plains. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971, p.150 & pp. 136-7
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study PH1 Place Pyramid Co-operative Society Ltd. Emporium
Formerly
Address Corner Victoria and Barber Streets Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 401059 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An exceptionally imposing Mediterranean Style department store of the Inter War period occupying a prominent corner position and dominated by a clock tower and arcaded treatment to the Victoria and Barber Street elevations. The facades are stuccoed and whilst the store itself has a curved corner at the intersection, the arcade is square on plan with enlarged openings giving emphasis. The arcaded has segmental archways with a plain parapet but the store has a hipped roof with Cordovan tiles and bracketed eaves in the Spanish manner. The clock tower is pilastrated with rosettes and has a fine cornice with surmounting terminations to the pilasters and a steep pyramidal Cordovan tiled roof. The arcade ceilings are in pressed metal and there are original bronze framed shop windows with tiled stall boards. There is a generous ingo. The rear of the building is utilitarian and there are several outbuildings.
Inside, the columns are fluted with decorative capitals and there are large skylights illuminated by a sawtoothed roof above between the exposed beams connecting the columns in both directions. The fit out for the offices is original and distinguished by its timber panelling, elevated position with approach steps and cashier's screen.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High. Original signage to arcade removed, present advertising signage unsympathetic.
History After managing a general store at Terrick Terrick, John McKay, the brother of Hugh McKay who founded the Sunshine Harvester works, built a general store in Pyramid Hill in 1885 in partnership with his brother Sam. By the end of the year McKay’s implement works and store dominated the commercial centre of the new town. The business grew to become an important departmental store and employed a large number of staff. During the 1902 drought, the store suffered and no wages were paid to employees for a year.
The Pyramid Hill Cooperative Society Limited was incorporated in 1918. At first it experienced difficulty in raising the necessary share capital it needed to buy McKay’s store, however after a series of instalments it commenced trading as the new owner in 1919. The newly-named Pyramid Hill Cooperative Store purchased goods at wholesale prices and sold them at market prices; subsequent profits were distributed to shareholders and used to consolidate business holdings to provide increased employment opportunities in the region. The store prospered along with the district in the good years of the 1920s, however burnt to the ground in a fire in 1932. The replacement building, designed by Melbourne architects Messrs. A. C. Leith and Associates, was seen as a substantial addition to the commercial centre of the town, and was described thus by the Pyramid Advertiser:
The building is to be treated in the Florentine manner. It looks invitingly cool beneath the arches which give protection from the sun and a fine arcaded effect to the whole. Shoppers and travellers will also be sensible, when the building is completed, of the civic spirit expressed by the clock tower. The construction will involve several engineering tasks not usually undertaken. These are designed to enhance the appearance of the town as well as provide a modern building seldom seen outside the capital cities.
An article in The Age of July, 1933, noted the unusual structure of lightweight steel used in the framing for the new Cooperative store:
In carrying out the structural work in steel …expenditure on other and heavier materials has been greatly reduced. Much greater space, too, will be secured owing to the flexibility of long span construction, while the network of steel will effectively bind the structure, making it durable and rigid.
The Pyramid Hill Cooperative proved to be a mainstay of the local economy as it survived the harsh years of the 1930s depression, and went on to amalgamate with the Pyramid Hill and District Dairy and Produce Company in 1945, and to purchase the Mincha Butter Factory in 1949. Some idea of its extensive range of goods that could be purchased from the Cooperative Store can be gleaned from the attached advertisement.
The Store was taken over in 1973 by Murray Goulburn when the company bought up most butter factories in the region.
Today the Store operates as the ‘Pyramid Hill Shopping Centre’, housing a franchise of Food Way Supermarkets.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Pyramid Hill). Context
Statement of The former Pyramid Hill Cooperative Store, now the Pyramid Hill Shopping Centre, is Significance located at the intersection of Victoria and Barber Streets, Pyramid Hill and was built in 1933 to the design of A.C. Leith and Associates, architects. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a highly successful demonstration of the practice of establishing co-operative society's to strengthen economies by sharing the common interests of rural communities. This significance is enhanced by the co- operative's Post War dominance of the region, the Mincha butter factory being one of the enterprises acquired during this period. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a uniquely (Criterion B) imposing emporium for a township of Pyramid Hill's size, its association with the prominent firm of Melbourne architects A.C. Leith and Associates being of interest, the design in the Mediterranean Style being highly competent and comparing with the firm's work of the period including the Heidelberg town hall (1936- 37) in the European Modernist Style and alterations to the Collingwood Town hall (1937- 38) in the Moderne Manner. The survival of the offices fit out is a rare surviving element of its type. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over interior alterations. Recommended for inclusion on the National Estate Register and the Victorian Heritage Register.
References The Age, July 4th, 1933, p. 12 Pyramid Hill Historical Society, various documents Monks, Brendan, A Land So Inviting: A History of the Shire of Gordon 1885-1985, Dominion Press, Maryborough Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study PH2 Place Pyramid Hill Memorial Hall
Formerly
Address Barber Street Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 400060 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An imposing Classically derived Free Style memorial hall with raised central stuccoed and rough cast pedimented section surmounting a Romanesque arched porch with heavy rustications and the words Memorial Hall in cement on an otherwise plain frieze. The flanking parapets incorporate ox bow shapes and faceted pilaster terminations with rough cast and fair face work and a frieze ornamented with a row of connected circles in cement.The walls to frieze level are in red brick, further emphasis to the entry being given by the extension of the stuccoed surfaces downward to the capitals to the main arch. There is a ticket window incorporated in the façade design with a balancing plaque dedicating the hall to the memory of the men of the Australian Infantry Forces in the Great War. The façade treatment returns around the sides of the building to the depth of the front rooms. The sides of the hall are subdivided into buttressed bays and there are extensive asbestos cement lined additions at the rear.
There is an axe finished granite memorial on a sawn bluestone and cement faced stepped base erected as a tribute to the memory of Pte. H. J. Hiscock by the Victorian Mounted Rifles located in the forecourt and on the axis of the building.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History George D. Garvin, an architect in Bendigo and partner with John Beebe prior to the latter's death in 1926, was employed in 1924 to design the Pyramid Hill Memorial Hall. The Hall’s design included two rooms with a lobby between and a bio box over the latter; an auditorium of 58 feet by 35 feet at the front; a stage12 foot in depth, a room measuring 35 feet by 14 feet behind the stage; and behind a kitchen with coppers and washing up bench. The room between the stage and the kitchen was walled with movable panels to that it could be divided into two for dressing rooms or to be used as one room for supper.
The Hall was funded by private subscriptions, many from local farmers who experienced boom years during the 1920s. A number of activities were held to raise the funding required to equip and furnish the Hall. These included a market, a children’s party, card afternoons, a dance and a ball.
The unveiling of the memorial stone to those who had served in World War I at the Hall was performed in October, 1924 by Colonel Hurry, M.H.R. The occasion included a social and dance at the Victoria Hall the same evening. The Hall itself was opened in April 1925 by Colonel Hurry. An avenue of trees was dedicated in 1936. Beebe and Garvin also designed the Returned Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Pall Mall, Bendigo (1921) and may have designed the Bridgewater-on-Loddon Memorial Hall (1923).
The Hiscock memorial, a prismatic obelisk and a rough-hewn granite block resting on a slab of bluestone, was provided by subscriptions from past and present members of the Pyramid Mounted Rifles and the Australian Light Horse. The monument was dedicated to Sergeant H. Hiscock, who died in South Africa from enteritis in the campaign against the Boers. The memorial was unveiled in November, 1906 in a ceremony which consisted of a dedication by Mr John Cullen, M.L.A., attended by school children and a performance by the Pyramid Hill Brass Band.
The Hall continues to be used as a regular meeting place by the community.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.8 Remembering the fallen. Context
Statement of The Pyramid Hill Memorial Hall was built to the design of Bendigo architect, George D. Significance Garvin, and opened on 22nd. April, 1925. It is situated in Barber Street, Pyramid Hill. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a public memorial hall commemorating the involvement of the district in the Great War and other conflicts and as a public meeting place and entertainment venue in Pyramid Hill since 1925. It demonstrates the widespread practice during the 1920s of building such halls and is important also as an expression of the rebuilding of a community folowing the war and of its coming to terms with the loss of a generation. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an exceptionally imposing Classical Free Style public building designed by the noted Bendigo architect, George D. Garvin, this importance being enhanced by the prominence of the place in Barber Street. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Pyramid Hill Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Pyramid Hill Advertiser November 2, 1906; January 11, 1924; August 1, 1924; November 7, 1924; May 1, 1925
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study PH3 Place Pyramid Hill town centre
Formerly
Address Barber Street, Victoria Street. Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 400060 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study PH4 Place St. Patricks Catholic Church complex
Formerly
Address Victoria Street Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 399060 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A complex consisting of church and former presbytery. The Inter War church is in the Gothic Revival mode with tuck pointed red brick walls having stuccoed dressings and a slate roof. The façade is tri-partite with an engaged copper clad spire. The central bay has coupled Romanesque arched doors separated by polished granite columns within a lancet arched mould incorporating trefoil and quatrefoil motifs. There is a surmounting rose window and niche in the apex with a figure of the saviour. The sanctuary is contained within a subordinate element at the north end, framed within by a lancet archway. The nave is spanned by hammer beam trusses supporting varnished timber linings following the slope of the roof. The original wood grained pews are in situ.
Memorial wrought iron gates were erected in 1960 to the memory of Catherine McDonald.
The associated former presbytery to the east is an Arts and Crafts influenced red brick building with pyramidal terra cotta tiled roof extended to form a verandah on three sides and having fixed vents in the Dutch gabled ends. Coupled timber verandah posts have curved brackets reinforcing the Arts and Crafts ambience of the design.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, includes four palms along the frontage.
History St Patrick’s Catholic Church and presbytery were built on the south side of Pyramid Hill and opened by Father O’Connell in February, 1875. The official opening consisted of a ‘religious exercise’ at the foot of Pyramid Hill attended by 200 parishioners.
The Church was described as a ‘well-designed’ weatherboard building 45’ long, 20’ wide and 13’ high with three buttresses either side. The interior walls consisted of stained and varnished lining boards. The Church was dismantled and moved to the new Pyramid Hill church site in 1923.
A number of fund-raising events were held to raise money for a new, more central Roman Catholic church at Pyramid Hill. These included a Catholic Queen Coronation in 1918, and a Grand Fete in 1926. The new church was opened in May, 1926 by Bishop McCarthy. Built at a cost of £10,680, it accommodated close to 500 worshippers. The church was constructed entirely of brick and concrete, with the interior finished in timber. Carved figures and a series of stations of the cross completed the interior. Many of the workmen who travelled to Pyramid Hill to build the church stayed on to complete the new Victoria Hotel. A red-brick presbytery was built in the same year adjoining the church on the east, and a weatherboard convent built on the west.
The church continues to be used for services today, the former presbytery is now in private ownership, and the former convent is now used as the presbytery.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6. Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The Catholic Church of St. Patrick and its associated former presbytery are situated on Significance the north side of Victoria Street in Pyramid Hill. They were built in 1926. They are historically and aesthetically significant.
They are historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Catholic worship in Pyramid Hill since 1926, recalling the presence of the church in the township since relocation of the earlier church of 1875 in 1923. They are aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as key public buildings on the north side of Victoria Street forming a group with the former post office, lock up and former Water Commissioner's house. The church is exceptionally imposing for a township of its size and significant for its high level of integrity. The absence of a front porch imparts distinction to the façade when compared with the main stream of contemporary Catholic churches, creating an opportunity for individual treatment. The Arts and Crafts influence demonstrated in the former presbytery causes it to stand apart from other domestic buildings in the township. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Pyramid Hill Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Harrick, Peter, St. Patrick’s-the Church on the Hill, Rogan’s Typesetting Services, Maryborough, n.d.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2001 Loddon Heritage Study PH6 Place Pyramid Hill Railway Station
Formerly
Address off Victoria Street Pyramid Hill
Property Information
Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 399061 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative nineteenth century Boom period country town station complex consisting of the following elements: - the station building and platform,van goods shed, mens' closets, semaphore signals, former railway houses, silos and weighbridge.
The station building is a standard Boom period timber framed building of its type with posted verandah, modified interior layout and small extension at the south end. Distinguishing timber ornamentation has been applied to the verandah which has heavily chamfered posts with capitals, chamfered brackets, diagonally lined soffit and and end curtain boards. The gable ends are also enriched with curtain boards and king post motifs whilst the window architraves and sills are chamfered and bracketed respectively. There are ornamented sunhoods to the windows.The linings are timber throughout and there are stuccoed chimneys to the fireplaces in the office and former ladies' waiting room. The platform retains its full length. The van goods shed is a standard two door structure. To the north, the mens' closets have been presumably rebuilt at different times and are a standard timber framed corrugated iron clad structure of their type. . There is a standard concrete silo and weighbridge. The goods shed is also a standard corrugated iron clad gable roofed structure of the period with a shortened outside loading platform. The station master's residence (DR 950) is a standard Class Double T building presumably assembled from two gatekeepers' cottages and the second Departmental Residence is a standard Class 3 concrete house.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, station building altered, lamp room demolished, dock road removed.
History Four acres for the Pyramid Hill railway grounds were reserved in 1884(?), the same year the station was officially opened. A number of structures were erected, including a goods platform (contractor: W.Sly and Co., contract signed 30/11/1883), a goods shed and platform (contractor: H.W. Sutcliffe, contract signed 15/8/1884), telegraph line from Pyramid Hill to Kerang (contractor: James McCallum, sogned 26/9/1884), station master’s house, a station building (contractor: C.E. Hyde, contract signed 12/5/1888), a wheat-stack area, and sheep and cattle yards.
The building of the railway line through the area was the cause of the original Pyramid Hill township shifting to its present site,
The ‘Hill’ was deleted from the station title in 1904. The telegraph was removed in 1956 and the station master in 1979.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people Context on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of Source: Heritage Victoria: Significance Pyramid Hill Railway Station was built in 1888 by C.E. Hyde on the Eaglehawk - Kerang line for the Victorian Railways. It is a richly decorated, classically designed, standard timber station building with a gable roof and decorated gable ends with a timber posted verandah, richly decorated capitals and ceiling linings. The roadside windows have decorated hoods. The goods shed built in 1884 by H. Sutcliffe, enhances the station buidling's setting. Other structures include a timber van goods shed, toilet and circular concrete radio beacon structure, which has recently been added to the adjacent station building. Pyramid Hill railway station is historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria.
It is historically significant for its association with the 'Octopus Act' of 1884. It is an intact example of a railway station constructed during a massive program of capital works that resulted from this Act. The station is architecturally significant as a representative and substantially intact example of a richly decorated, standard timber station building. The design was influential in the construction of the 'Pyramid Hill' group of modest standard timber station buildings of a similar plan and decorative details, featuring Victorian trimmings, such as the timber work to the verandah and gable ends.
Additional note for Loddon Heritage Study: The standard Departmental residences are contributory elements. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Pyramid Hill Central Heritage Overlay Area with control over interior alterations.
References Lewis, Miles, Australian Architectural Index, 1977, SLV Pyramid Hill and District Historical Society Guiney, M., Weekly Notice Extracts 1894-1994. Annual Reports of the Victorians Railway Commissioners.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study PH7 Place Pyramid Hill Post Office
Formerly Pyramid Hill Post and Telegraph Office
Address Victoria Street Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 399060 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A small timber framed and weatherboard clad hip roofed post office and quarters, the earlier quarters having been built as a single fronted symmetrical building with posted verandah and tall brick chminey stacks characteristic of the Public Works Department's designs. There is a slightly narrower extension of the house accommodating the bedrooms at the rear. The verandah has coupled timber posts with restrained capital ornamentation and curved brackets seen in other post offices of the period. The later additions have a Dutch gabled roof and offset the symmetry of the original design. There is a porch with the public space set back from the façade and illuminated by windows, the opening to the porch being given emphasis by coupled posts on either side. The building is set back slightly from the street allowing space for a flagpole.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, unsympathetic signage.
History A post office was opened at Pyramid Hill in 1875 and a money order office was established in 1881. The railway arrived in 1884 and the new township of Pyramid Hill was formed in its present location. The present former Pyramid Hill Post Office building was built in 1891 at a cost of £798, and was gazetted as a Class ‘C’ post office. It was designed by George W. Watson of the Victorian Public Works Department, the working drawings being executed by J.H. Harvey and J.C. Morrell, draughtsmen with the department. Similar offices were built at Linton, Tatura, Apsley and Nagambie between 1880 and 1886. In 1902, three mail contracts were operated from the Post Office. During 1908, staff at the office handled 136,681 postal articles, 6,287 telegrams, and 504 money orders. The population served at this time was 1,600. Telephone facilities were installed in 1909, and by 1912, a manual exchange had opened and operated until 1982 when an automatic exchange was installed. In 1973, the Post Office employed 4 postal staff and 4 telephonists. Three postal contracts were run from the office in the same year.
Postal services were privatised in 1994 and the Pyramid Hill Post Office closed in December, 1998.
Thematic 7. Governing. 7.5 Developing administrative structures and authorities. 7.5.7. Context Providing services and welfare (poatal). Statement of The former Pyramid Hill post and telegraph office was built in 1891, having been Significance established at the former Pyramid Hill town site in 1875. It is situated in Victoria Street, Pyramid Hill, and was designed by George W. Watson of the Victorian Public Works Department. It has since been extended to accommodate an expanded public space. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of postal and formerly telegraph services in Pyramid Hill from 1891 until 1998. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a former public building at Pyramid Hill, comparing in this respect with the railway station and offices of the former State Rivers and Water Supply Commission. This significance may be enhanced at the State level by comparison with other surviving examples of the small group of similar designs undertaken by George Watson. Design elements indicative of its former status as a Government building include the coupled posts to the quarters verandah and the design of the porch to the public space along with the setback from the property alignment affording space for the flagpole. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Pyramid Hill Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Kent, J. A., The Major’s Vision – and its Fulfilment. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1974, pp. 130-1 Australia Post records VPRS 242/747, PRO. VPP 1876, v.2: Report of the Post Office and Telegraph Department for 1875, 1882-3, v.2: Report of the Post Office and Telegraph Department for 1881. Warmington, G.S., Ward, A.C. "Australia Post Survey of Historic Properties in Victoria", 1990, v.2. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study PH8 Place Victoria hotel
Formerly
Address Corner Kelly and Victoria Streets
Property Information
Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 400058 Mitiamo Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An imposing and dominant two storeyed red brick corner hotel situated at the principal intersection of the township. It has a corner splay and parapet treatment characteristic of the Inter War period with pilasters extended above the parapet line which has a level coping except where curves have been introduced to form pavilions at the west end of the building and either side of the corner splay. There are dribbles on the faces of the pilasters and rusticated stuccoed facings to the lower level pilasters giving emphasis to the principal points of entry. The street level windows are round arched and the upper level windows flat arched, boith with stuccoed lintels.
Inside, the principal spaces have been altered although original elements including the bottle shop ceiling are in situ. The staircase and residential accommodation is substantially intact.
There is a brick outbuilding linked with the hotel by means of a brick wall having timber lined ceilings and arched doorways understood to the a part of the original building complex on this site.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium to High.
History The Victoria Hotel and Hall were built by Thomas Watson who had made his money from the discovery of gold reefs at Bendigo. A settler in the area in 1870, he built a store and hotel in the former Pyramid Hill township. Seeing the potential for expansion that the railway would bring to the new township of Pyramid Hill, he erected the Victoria Hotel and Hall on his 640 acre block to coincide with the arrival of the rail in 1884. Before the erection of churches in the area, services were held in the Hall. Watson sold the complex in 1906, a Mr. Kelly having been recorded by the bank manager on 12th. April, 1907 as having recently purchased it for 7,750 pounds. A Mr. T.A. Kelly remained as the licensee in 1951. The Victoria Hotel burnt down in 1926, and the remaining structure was extensively remodelled "in brick to house additional accommodation" in 1928 by licensee, Bridget Kelly.
The Victoria Hotel continues to operate today as the only hotel in Pyramid Hill.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11. Feeding people. 3.11.5 Context Retailing foods and beverages. Statement of The Victoria Hotel was rebuilt in 1928 after a fire and is situated at the corner of Kelly Significance and Victoria Streets, Pyramid Hill. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the principal hotel in the township since 1928, being located on the site of the earlier hotel of 1884 built to coincide with the arrival of the railway in that year. This prominent corner site has been occupied by a hotel throughout the history of the township and its location reflects a close functional link with the railway station. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as the largest building in the commercial centre being challenged only by the Pyramid Co-operative Society Ltd. Emporium. Its façade treatment is representative of its period and unusual in Pyramid Hill. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Pyramid Hill Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Pyramid Hill Historical Society
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001 Loddon Heritage Study PH9 Place Shop
Formerly
Address 12 Victoria Street Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 399060 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A single storeyed timber framed shop built initially as a pair and having a timber posted verandah and hipped corrugated iron clad roof with timber and brick outbuildings at the rear. The shop front retains two entrances, one of which has an early four panelled door and early timber framed windows. The rear brick building has a corrugated iron clad gable roof with cement sheets to the gabel ends and was probably built around the time of the Great War or soon afterwards. It served as the bakehouse and may still have the oven.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium
History The Pyramid Hill bakery was built in 1886, two years after the building of the rail through the area. Buildings at the rear of the store housed the ovens.
The building continues to be used as a bakery today, however most goods are not baked on the premises.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Pyramid Hill). Context
Statement of The Pyramid Hill bakery is situated at no. 12 Victoria Street, Pyramid Hill and was built Significance in 1886. It is historically and aesthetically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as an early surviving commercial building in the Victoria Street centre established immediately following the arrival of the railway in 1884. This significance is enhanced by the long standing role of the building as a bakery recalling the period during which each town was served by its own bakery selling products baked on the premises. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an early building of utilitarian appearance in the township retaining elements of the original shop front and demonstrating the type of shops built during the founding years of the township. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Pyramid Hill Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Pyramid Hill and District Historical Society
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study PH10 Place Motor Garage
Formerly
Address Corner Victoria and Barber Streets Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 400060 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study PH11 Place Pine log hut ruins
Formerly
Address Pyramid Hill - Mincha Road Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 382095 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Location is approximate, situated alongside road (east side), between Pyramid Hill and Mincha.
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Assessed by: Andrew Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Se1 Place Woolshed
Formerly
Address East Loddon Station on Longs Road Serpentine
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 655708 Wedderburn-Kinyoanial 7625-S
Existing Heritage Council Register Yes Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A vast brick and timberand iron framed Shearing Shed, rectangular on plan with an unusual asymmetrical gable roof presumably incorporating continuous ventilation/lights in the manner of a later sawtooth roof. The design, whilst utilitarian, is also highly picturesque not only on account of the roof form but also for the massing of the elements, the original building having been extended on both sides at the west end. The south side extension continues the solpe of the parapeted end but the north side extension reverses the downward slope by creating an internal gutter at the junction with the original building. The design of the façade, facing west, gains strength through the use of simply stated shapes with emphasis being focused on the central entry by means of judiciously placed openings consisting of windows and an oculus vent and by buttresses. The corresponding east end retains the shape and size of the structure as built, the offset gable, central doorway with surmounting oculus and buttresses being the principal elements. The long side elevations are subdivided into buttressed bays with double rows of openings, the lower row being shuttered (?) and the upper row fitted with timber louvres.
Inside, the roof trusses are lightly framed in iron supporting timber purlins. There is accommodation for 30 stands with hardwood slats to the shearing level floor. There are timber lined grading rooms and timber framed sheep pens. A Ferrier's wool press manufactured by Humble and Sons in Geelong (no. 1505) is in situ.
There is also a Cook's House designed in a similar unostentatious manner with a gable roof terminated by parapeted ends. There is a small lean to on the south side and a recessed posted verandah on the north side with flanking rooms. The gutters are of cast iron and the roof lining is in corrugated iron. Inside, there is a fireplace and ovens with a brick paved floor. The windows and doors have mostly been removed, the building being presently used as a store. There is an associated cistern with domed cap.
The remains of shearers' quarters are also in situ.
Condition: Sound, some structural movement. Integrity: High. Includes avenue of mature pines, peppercorns and sugar gums.
History The woolshed on the East Loddon station was built c1871 for John Ettershank, to a plan believed to have been developed by W. J. Vahland. Ettershank is credited with the invention of the first mechanical shearing handpiece patented in 1868. His 28-stand shed was fully mechanised prior to 1886, firstly with steam-engines, and then with a pair of oil-driven 'Rushton-Hornsby' hot bulb engines. The saw-tooth roofed shed is believed to have been built from bricks manufactured on site; the internal steel trusses were fabricated away from the station. Windows were designed with weighted timber Venetian-type blades, and a rail line under the shed carried trucks to collect droppings from the pens.
In a neighbouring paddock stands a red-brick cookhouse and an underground well. Workers employed at the woolshed came here for meals. Remnant footings to the north of the cookhouse evidence sleeping quarters.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.4 Developing primary Context production.
Statement of Heritage Victoria Statement of significance: "The woolshed at East Loddon Significance Station is unique for its use of materials in that it is a precise, industrialised example of a building type not generally designed with such formality or consequence. The 28 stand shed is of English bond exposed brickwork, buttressed on all sides with segmental brick arches over all openings. 184 feet long, the building has a sawtooth corrugated iron roof on bolted cast iron trusses with gable ends distinguished by symmetrical buttressing about the arched entrances with oculus louvres over. The original glass in the clear- storey has been largely replaced with iron, but otherwise the woolshed is in original condition. Two extensions have been made to the west and at a date unknown. The shed has provision for 12 further stands with the additional runways bricked in at the time of construction. It does not appear that the extra capacity was ever required. The interior timber work of the stands and pens are all intact including the counterweighted gates. The shed was mechanised prior to 1886, firstly with steam engines and then by a pair of oil-driven 'Ruston-Hornsby' hot bulb engines. Only the mountings and part of the pulley system remain of these. The shed still contains a 'Ferrier" level wool-press and 'W & T Avery' scales from Birmingham. The woolshed was constructed in c.1871 for John Ettershank an engineer and pastoralist who, through his partnership in a stock and station agency, was intimately connected with the squatting movement in Victoria. He is also credited with the invention of the first mechanical shearing system. Ettershank, almost certainly, played a significant role in the design of the shed, his signature and notes appearing on the drawings. The final design and drafting has been attributed to the architect W.C. Vahland. Although this is not verifiable, the drawings appear to have been executed by a professional hand, either Vahland's or the builders, Crawford Bros. of Bendigo." Recommendations Recommended for inclusion on the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Victorian Heritage Register On-Line listing Webb, Colin & Quinlan, John, Greater Than Gold: A History of Agriculture in the Bendigo District from 1835 to 1985. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1985, p. 60
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study M6 Place Mologa East School site
Formerly Mologa East State School no. 1836
Address Mologa Durham Ox Road Mologa
Property Information
Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 569500 Mitiamo Patho 7725N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The site of the Mologa East school is occupied by a grassy field with mature sugar gums on the boundaries. There is a memorial reading "Site of Mologa East State School no. 1836 1877-1926. First Teacher Alice McMillan Last Teacher Florence Gregory Erected by Back To Mologa-Mologa Central Committee November 2nd., 1997".
History Dr. Craig reported on a need for a school in this locality on 6th. June, 1876, recommending a two acre site at the north-east corner of E. gamble's Crown lease. It was gazetted on 23rd. March, 1877. The Mologa East School, a portable timber school- room with attached quarters, was opened here on 6th. March, 1877. The building was completed in 1883. It was overcrowded from the beginning, the quarters being added to the school room in the first year. The former school building from Terrick Terrick was shifted to the same site in 1903, and the original Mologa East School building was used as a teacher’s residence, and from c1912, as a shelter shed. Due to overcrowding, a new site closer to the centre of town was purchased in 1915 and the school was shifted in 1926.
Thematic 6. Educating. 6.2. Establishing schools. Context
Statement of The site of the Mologa East school is located on the Mologa - Durham Ox road. It is of Significance historic interest. This interest centres on its role as a school site from 1877 until 1926 and is a testimony to the need for local centres of State education at a time when vehicular transport was not universally available in rural Victoria. The surviving sugar gums are expressive of the site's past role as a school. Recommendations Rocommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table with control over the removal of trees.
References Natural Resources and Environment: Schedule of "Parcels with Historic (European) Land Management Values" Back to Mologa Calendar 1997, Northern Times Print, Kerang. Education Department of Victoria: "Vision and Realisation", 1973, v.2, pp.505-06. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B43 Place Ruins (not found)
Formerly
Address Lake Boort (?) Boort
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Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description c.1850 structure, part Murray Pine, c.150metres into the lake.
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References Boort public meeting.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jun 1998 Loddon Heritage Study Ba3 Place Shearing Shed (not found)
Formerly
Address Barraport
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Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description
History c.1858
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References Boort public meeting
Assessed by: Andrew ward Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study DO7 Place Posts with rings (not found)
Formerly
Address Durham Ox
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Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Associated with light horse changing station.
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References Boort public meeting
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study C4 Place Public well and tank
Formerly
Address Raywood Durham Ox Road Pompapiel
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 368789 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The well is a brick lined c.900mm diameter shaft with the remains of a timber superstructure including adzed decking and associated bolts. The brickwork is two courses thick and consists partly of curved bricks. There is an earth tank nearby.
Condition: Sound, timber superstructure unsound. Integrity: High.
History Pompapiel is a small agricultural district, once in the East Loddon Shire. Selection of land was taken up from the mid-1870s. The Pompapiel School opened in 1884, at a time when the area experienced another wave of settlement.
The Pompapiel well and tank are located in swamp land on the Raywood-Durham Ox Road, north of the Echuca-Serpentine Road junction. When first settled, the area had no permanent creeks or lakes. Water was collected in barrels for drinking and in dams for stock. The 2 acre block on which the dam and well are located was granted to the East Loddon Shire in November 1883. The well and associated dam served as one of the first permanent water supplies to settlers in the area.
It is believed the earthen dam was first built as a Government tank. The dam was later fitted with a McComas hand pump, and c.1914 connected by a channel to the Waranga Western Channel.
According to local knowledge, during a particularly dry year, selectors clubbed together to sink this public well at the same site. The well was round and bricked from the water level to the surface - about 50 feet of bricking. A single bucket was used to collect the water. The well was used until c.1914 when a severe drought instigated the pumping of water into the old Loddon Trust channels from the newly completed Waranga Western Channel. Wells such as this were not uncommon prior to the construction of irrigation systems and often complemented publicly funded weirs. Comparative examples exist at Colbinabbin and Rheola (granite lined).
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.10. Altering the environment for economic development. Statement of The former public well and tank on the Raywood Durham Ox Road at Pompapiel was Significance established after 1883 when two acres of land in which the well was sunk were granted to the East Loddon Shire. It is historically and technically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to offer insights into the life styles and techniques for survival established by the first generation of settlers in the locality and compares within the Shire with the contemporary works of the Loddon United Water Trust's stock and domestic supply system commissioned in 1885.
It is technically significant (Criterion F) for its capacity to demonstrate how publicly funded wells were built last century, the associated earth tank being of contributory interest.
As a substantially intact structure of its type, it is also rare at the State level (Criterion B), comparing with the Colbinabbin well (1860s-70s) Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme and for inclusion on the Australian Heritage Commission Register.
References Jack Tresise, 1979, record held by East Loddon Historical Society
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2000 Loddon Heritage Study TS1 Place Terrick Terrick Station homestead site: Oakridg
Formerly
Address RSD 440, Kow Swamp-Mitiamo Road Terrick Terrick South
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. E255500 N599400 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The remains of the homestead consist of the granite plinth now carrying the walls of a later house and additional plinth stones in the garden. There is also a rear service wing, now used as a store and garage but retaining interior finishes including a lath and plaster ceiling. A north facing verandah has been removed by the red brick walls and chimney to the fireplace at one end is in situ. The east facing chimney has been part demolished.There is a gabled corrugated iron clad roof and a parapeted gable end. The opening for the garage is supported by a concrete lintel. Flagstones are understood to have been quarried at Mount Terrick.
There is an associated grave marked by timber posts and an elevated Cornish boiler used as a water supply mounted on a Murray Pine log frame. There are also two wells, one near the main building having a domed cap with cement facing.
Condition: Medium. Integrity: Low.
History Terrick Terrick Station was first occupied by Alexander Gordon Campbell in 1846. The property was later run by a number of different pastoralists. John Pearson Rowe purchased the lease in 1855 and entertained the Burke and Wills expedition in 1860. The first homestead was built from granite. It is believed the red brick homestead was built c1855 from bricks made on the property.
Edward and Mary Twigg moved to Terrick Terrick station in 1906 from Leichardt, and their son, Les, wrote this account of the original homestead:
The homestead faced south, it was built in a 3 corner or L shape. Edward and Mary’s bedroom of about 30 feet by 30 feet was off the large hallway of about 60 feet by 12 feet. To the right was the girls’ room. On the left of the hall was the dining room, originally the billiard room for the station, then a smaller room 10 feet by 12 feet. A later addition to the homestead was the 24 feet dining room on the South wing. The 24 feet by 30 feet kitchen was over on the other wing and the meals had to be taken across the courtyard to the dining room. The underground cellar was about 24 feet by 30 feet with 6 foot high walls and a shelf all round. There was another store room and a big underground tank by the billiard room.
Edward Twigg converted the dining room into a kitchen and later, the side containing the old kitchen, was pulled down. In 1937, the station homestead, except a part of the south wing, was pulled down by the Twiggs. All the walls were three bricks wide. The bricks were used to build the present house on the foundations of the original hall and billiard room. The house consists of three bedrooms, dining room, lounge, passage, kitchen and laundry. The granite foundations and window stones could not be moved, so the house was built to incorporate the original 4 feet by 6 feet by 9 feet windows of the old homestead.
Terrick Terrick station also incorporated three underground water tanks for the homestead, a 14-16 stand woolshed, sheep wash, and a cypress pine stable. Three graves on the south-west of the property mark the burial sites of three of the station workers.
Thematic 3.4 Developing primary production. Context
Statement of The service wing and associated remains of the Terrick Terrick Station are situated at Significance the property presently known as Oakridge on the Kow Swamp - Mitiamo Road, immediately south of the Regal's Bridge crossing of the Mount Hope Creek. They are historically significant.
They are historically significant (Criterion A) as the site and remains of the former Terrick Terrick homestead, presumed to have been erected by J.P. Rowe in c. 1855 and controlling the land watered by the Bullock and Mount Hope Creeks north of the Mitiamo Road as far as Terrick Terrick. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Stevens, Helen, Terrick Terrick Station, booklet
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Min4 Place Mincha Wine Shades
Formerly
Address Mincha North Road Mincha
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 366118 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The remains of a mud brick and cement rendered building consisting of the base walls and fireplace remnants defining the form of the building on the ground. There is an associated collapsed timber framed gable roof, red brick footings, a domed cistern and outbuildings.
Condition: Unsound. Integrity: Low.
History The Wine Shades was built as a mud-brick hotel at approximately the same time as the railway came through in 1884. Through an oversight in licensing, its licence as a hotel lapsed and it became a wine saloon. At an auction in 1900, the Wine Shades was described by the Pyramid Advertiser as ‘a Wine House, Boarding House, Butcher’s Business and 20 acres of land. Improvements include a most commodious boarding house, containing 15 rooms.’ The complex also included an underground tank, an 8 stall stable and buggy shed, with water ‘laid on for household and garden use from the railway tank’, and ‘a splendid brick hall 60 ft. with a suite of offices at the rear of the building leased to Tragowel Plains Irrigation Trust.’
The Trust met at the site from 1886-1905. The Mincha Railway School operated from the Hall from 1909 until 1911, when a new school building was erected. The mud-brick Hall was pulled down in the early 1920s. The Wine Shades continued to operate until 1924, when it became a private home.
Rising water tables led to the building’s collapse in the 1960s.
Thematic 3. Developing local regional and national economies. 3.11 Feeding people. 3.11.5. Context Retailing food and beverages.
Statement of The remains of the Mincha Wine Shades are of interest as a surviving structure of their Significance type, enhanced by the use of mud brick construction which, whilst in evidence in the district, appears not to have been commonplace. The existence of Wine Shades was widespread in country Victoria but few seem to have survived. Recommendations The remains of the Wine Shades should be recorded prior to their further deterioration.
References Back to Mincha Calendar. Northern Times Print, Kerang, 1998 Spowart, Cliff, About Mincha: A History of the Communities of Mincha West, Mincha East, Mincha South, and Mincha Railway. Pyramid Hill and District Historical Society, Pyramid Hill, 1998, p. 50
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study PH12 Place Former Catholic Presbytery
Formerly
Address Off Pyramid Leitchville Road Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 421052 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A substantial mid-Victorian red brick villa with reconstructed return posted verandah to both sides and symmetrical façade. Elements include the central recessed porch with archway and cement dressings, symmetrical window bays, chimneys and bracketed cornice with panelled frieze. Emphasis is given to the front entry by a reconstructed gablet and rendered steps to the reconstructed floor.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium.
History The site of the former town of Pyramid Hill was surveyed at the base of Pyramid Hill c1871 when the first selections in the area were made, and was known as Mount Pyramid. A request for the surveying of a school site was made in 1874. The site, excised from the Mount Pyramid Water Reserve, was temporarily reserved in 1875, and a 20’ x 12’ timber building with earthen floor erected. An 1875 map on which the school site is shown, details the layout of the settlement of Mount Pyramid which consisted of a hotel, store, post office, hall, Catholic church and sale yards. The first burial in the Pyramid Hill cemetery took place in 1875.
NB: Information concerning the history of the Presbytery is awaited.
The site was abandoned when the railway came through to the west in 1884. The school site was revoked in 1880, and the school building moved to Pyramid Hill in the late 1880s.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. Context 8.6. Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making places for worship.
Statement of The former Catholic Church presbytery is situated to the south of the Pyramid Leitchville Significance road and south of Pyramid Hill. It is historically important. This importance (Criterion A) is derived from its capacity to recall the former site of the Pyramid township prior to the opening of the railway line in 1884 and also as a former centre of Catholic worship prior to the relocation of the church to the present township. As an element of the former settlement, it compares with the cemetery and weir on the Bullock Creek nearby. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Pyramid Central Heritage Overlay Area.
References Source: Public Record Office, VPRS 242/105
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1999 Loddon Heritage Study PH13 Place Pyramid Hill Pet Food Sales
Formerly Pyramid Hill Cooperative Society Butter Factory Address Barber Street Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 399061 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A complex of industrial buildings having the former butter factory as its principal building with a detached engine house and powerhouse. The former butter factory has been substantially altered since its construction. It is a utilitarian design with a plain parapet, cantilevered awning to the loading bay and central roof lantern.
The engine house is a utilitarian corrugated iron clad timber framed and gabled roof structure accommodating a c.1936 Ruston Hornsby oil engine, manufactured in England (size 9 HRCE), brought to the site during the 1950s and used as a stand by generator in the event of power failure.
The former power house is a gable roofed horizontal corrugated iron clad structure with lean to additions, gable end vents and timber sliding doors. The plant has been removed but there is an abandoned wood fired boiler elsewhere on the site.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Low (butter factory) High (engine house) Medium (power house).
History Early creameries in the district railed cream to butter factories in Melbourne, however, because refrigerated transport did not exist, the cream often deteriorated. Some local Pyramid Hill business people instigated the formation of a local butter factory by calling a meeting in April 1895 to form a cooperative venture named the Pyramid Hill and District and Produce Company Ltd. Tenders were called for, and a one-room weatherboard factory opened in October 1895. It paid 7d. per pound of cream. Operations were affected by droughts and the subsequent unreliability of cream supplies until the 1920s when irrigation from Eildon Reservoir assured a more reliable supply of cream.
The butter factory was taken over by the Pyramid Hill Cooperative Society in 1945, and in 1949 the Mincha Butter Factory also merged with the Cooperative Society. In 1950, the production was 383 tons of butter at Pyramid Hill. In 1951, the factory took over Boort Butter Factory’s suppliers, and in 1955, Tragowel Produce and Trading Co. Ltd. joined the Pyramid Hill factory and the tonnage of butter increased to 774 tons in 1956. With the merging of the factory with Koondrook Kerang Dairy Co. in 1962, the name of the company changed to Pyramid Kerang and Koondrook Producers Co. Ltd. It again changed its name in 1965 to Mid-Murray Dairy Co. Ltd with a merger with the Gunbower Cooperative Butter Factory and Trading Co. Ltd. In 1973 Mid-Murray Dairy Co. joined Murray Goulburn Cooperative Co. Ltd., and the Pyramid Hill factory was one of those closed. The factory was purchased by Pyramid Hill Pet Food Sales c1988 and is currently used for the processing of pet food.
The building which housed the original electric power plant for the township of Pyramid Hill is situated on the same site. The erection of the powerhouse and the installation of equipment, a Ruston-Hornsby engine, a Seimens Bros. generator, a Crompton switchboard, cables, belting, meters and sundries, took place in 1927.
The powerhouse building is still in existence today, and a Ruston-Hornsby engine is still on site, although this is believed to have been brought in from the former Boort Butter Factory.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.12. Developing an Australian Context manufacturing capacity. 4. Building settlements, towns and cities. 4.2. Supplying urban services (power).
Statement of The former Pyramid Hill Co-operative Society butter factory was established in 1945 on Significance this site and following a series of mergers closed in 1973. The complex is used today by Pyramid Hill Pet Food Sales and is situated in Barber Street, Pyramid Hill. The former power house is historically significant and the engine house is technically significant. The former butter factory building is of interest.
The former power house is historically significant (Criterion A) as the original generating source of electrical power for the township, comparing with similar disused buildings elsewhere in Victoria and recalling the period during which the former State Electricity Commission of Victoria's grid was progressively extended across the State.
The engine house is technically significant (Criterion F) on account of the Ruston Hornsby oil engine which compares with the Australian built Ruston and Hornsby standby engine at the Water Wheel flour mill, Bridgewater-on-Loddon, within the Shire. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over interior alterations applicable to the engine house (the engine is in situ) and excluding the former butter factory.
References Kent, J. A., The Major’s Vision – and its Fulfilment. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1974, pp. 78-9 Pyramid Hill Advertiser, January 21, 1927
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study DO8 Place Durham Ox homestead (not found)
Formerly
Address West side of Serpentine Creek Durham Ox
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref.
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Re-built.
History
Thematic Context
Statement of Significance
Recommendations
References
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study PH14 Place Quarry and railway siding site
Formerly
Address south of the hill Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 414045 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A railway siding and quarry site, the formation of the former consisting at its eastern end of a low embankment, at times disturbed, running along the south side of the Bullock Creek for a section where there are remains of a timber bridge over a water course consisting of 8 standing piles and other remnants including a fallen pile with pointed end. There is also evidence of granite ballast. The junction with the mainline has been regraded to remove any evidence of the siding formation but early timber posts in the railway reserve may be related to its former presence.
The quarry face is clearly evident with machinery beds for the crusher, flywheel housing, steam engine and associated holding down bolts. There is an associated dam, now enlarged but the presumed source of water for the steam engines and a supply channel.
History Lacey’s Hill quarry was used for the extraction of ballast for the building of the railway from Mitiamo in 1883-4. The contractors for the railway between Mitiamo and Kerang were Wilkins and Stevens (contract date 30th. June, 1883). The quarry employed a large number of workers who were housed in tents. A reserve for a railway branch line to provide haulage services to and from the ballast reserve was gazetted in 1885, and a siding opened in May, 1889 with a temporary staff and telegraph station. A writer to the Pyramid Hill Advertiser in 1936 remembered the first ballast train:
We also watched with interest the construction of a branch line from the quarries to the new railway. The day came when the first locomotive puffed across the creek, and at lunch time the boys raced to see this new wonder that was taking water at the creek…Soon after this the line reached the site of the future township of Pyramid Hill and the ballast trains began to load the crushed stone which was to metal the railway to Swan Hill.
From March 1890, the siding was restricted to one rake at a time. Later in the same year the siding ceased operations and the telegraph station was closed.
Operations commenced again at the quarry in 1891 by a contractor requiring stone for district work. The battery and railway siding were brought back into operation with the quarry employing about 25 men for several weeks.
The quarry opened again in 1923 with contract work being carried out by W. E. Wooster. The railway siding was once more made operational.
An article in the Pyramid Advertiser in 1932 noted that the C.R.B. wanted 10-12,000 tons of granitic sand and crushed rock, and that the quarry was likely to be reopened.
The ballast line reserve was revoked in 1967.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.3. Exploiting natural Context resources. 3.3.3. Mining. 3.7 Moving goods and people. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people on land. 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways.
Statement of Lacey's former quarry and associated quarry siding were established during the Significance construction of the Mitiamo to Kerang railway in 1883-84. The siding was presumably constructed and operated during the construction phase by the railway contractors, Wilkins and Stevens. It continued in use intermittently until the Second World War period, the reserve being finally revoked in 1967. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) to the extent that it demontrates an aspect of railway construction and the works associated with building the line to Kerang. In this respect it compares with other similar sidings including the surviving siding formation and quarry site at Lethbridge and the contractors' quarries at Harcourt and Malmsbury, both sites being associated with the former Victorian Railway's main trunk lines of the 1860s. The bridge site, siding formation, quarry face and machinery beds are contributory elements. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References VPRS 242/1015, PRO Pyramid Advertiser September 25, 1891, November 23, 1923, 3 September, 1932 Kent, J. A., The Major’s Vision – and its Fulfilment. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1974, p. 132
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study PH15 Place Weir
Formerly
Address South of Pyramid Leitchville Road Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 415055 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A granite block, field stone and concrete weir with associated concrete lined channel accommodating timber gate valve remains. There are mounds either side and a disturbed low granitic bank to the east, the dredged course of the Bullock Creek now passing to the immediate east of the weir. Five posts remain from a former footbridge crossing the weir. The weir wall and associated spillway are approximately 140 metres long.
Condition: Unsound. Integrity: Medium.
History Records of the building of a weir across Bullock Creek at Pyramid Hill are scant, however it is believed that the weir across was constructed by the first selectors to arrive in the area in the mid-1870s. Collectively, settlers deepened, widened and banked the creek for use as a water storage. Water from the weir was used for domestic purposes, as well as for watering stock grazing on the Common. A Loddon and United Water Trust report stated that £615 18s. 6d. was spent on the Pyramid Dam and Weir in 1890.
A sluice gate was added to the weir c1912. A postcard dated 1918 depicts the spillway in full operation with a timber slatted footbridge with railings either side in existence.
The weir also proved a popular swimming hole. It is believed to have been frequented by Frank Beaurepaire, who in 1913 after arriving back from the Olympic Games in 1908, gave instruction on life saving.
The footbridge was still in use in 1938 and used often by townspeople to access the cemetery on the east side of Bullock Creek.
Today, the remnants of footings, sluice gates and the weir wall are all that remain to testify to weir’s existence.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities. 4.2. Supplying urban services (water) Context Statement of The former Pyramid Hill weir is located across Bullock Creek (since diverted) to the Significance south of the hill and was associated with the supply of water to settlers from the 1870s. The sluice gate was provided c.1912 (in situ) and a footbridge with railing (not extant) served to link the railway township with the cemetery. It is historically and technically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the remains of the infrastructure established to supply water to settlers from the 1870s before the arrival of the railway in 1884 and subsequently. It is technically significant (Criterion F) as a comparatively rare and intact surviving installation of its type demonstrating the nature of infrastructure initially provided to harness water for domestic services during the nineteenth century, the principal surviving elements being the weir, levee bank, channel and spillway. They compare with abandoned railway water supply installations, examples being numerous but including Bealiba, Cressy, Cowangie, Korong Vale , Hattah and Skipton. Comparable early weir remains for general use survive at "Corrong" on the Yarriambiack Creek, the Budgerum weir over the Avoca River and the former Quambatook weir on Weir Road, across the Avoca River, Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Helen Stevens, local resident ‘Loddon United Waterworks Trust Report’, SRWSC, 10th February, 1941
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B39 Place Former Boort showground and racetrack (not fo
Formerly
Address Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 465980 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Now known as the Gyspum Swamp.
History
Thematic Context
Statement of Significance
Recommendations
References Boort public meeting.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Sep 1998 Loddon Heritage Study Se2 Place Serpentine General Store and petrol station
Formerly Podleck's Commercial Hotel
Address Loddon Valley Highway Serpentine
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 666658 Wedderburn-Kinypanial 7625-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative single storeyed mid Victorian brick hotel, now overpainted, and having a parapet wall to the façade stepping down with the form of the sloping roof towards the rear of the building. The parapet has a moulded brick cornice and four recessed panels. There is a timber framed and weatherboard clad lean to on the west side and at the rear and a recent timber posted verandah across the façade. The window openings are early. Inside, the original hotel fitout has been removed. There is a rendered outbuilding and cistern at the rear.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, mature peppercorns at rear.
History Serpentine served as a Cobb and Co. stop from 1859 and several hotels were built to cater for the needs of travellers. The latest addition was the building, c1878, of the new brick Podleck’s Commercial Hotel on a block of land titled in 1863 at the corner of Inglewood and Bendigo roads.
The building is now used as a store and service station.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11 Feeding people. 3.11.5. Context Retailing food and beverages. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people on land.
Statement of The former Podleck's Commercial Hotel was built c.1878 and is situated on the Loddon Significance Valley Highway at the Inglewood Road corner, Serpentine. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the sole surviving nineteenth century wayside hotel on the Kerang coach route within the Shire of Loddon and compares with the Four Posts Hotel at Jarklin. It is representative of others known to have existed on this route comparing with the Old House At Home Hotel (1860s) and the Royal Hotel (c.1912) to the south of the Shire. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a representative single storeyed brick hotel of the mid Victorian period, comparing closely with the Royal hotel previously mentioned and many others throughout the Victorian Central Goldfields. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Sharland, Michael, Those Verdant Plains. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971, p. 33
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study LV1 Place Farm house
Formerly
Address Loddon Valley Highway, north of Canary Is Loddon Vale
Property Information
Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 658120 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Timber farmhouse
History
Thematic Context
Statement of Significance
Recommendations
References
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1998 Loddon Heritage Study Ya1 Place Cemetery
Formerly
Address Loddon Valley Highway Yarrayne
Property Information
Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 605686 Wedderburn-Kinypanial 7625-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The Yarrayne Cemetery is located on a rise to the east of the Loddon Valley Highway, south of Serpentine. Its tree plantings contain remnants of Murray pines, as well as mature currajongs, peppercorns and eucalypts. Most of the graves date from the 1880s- 1890s and include local pioneer family names such as Leahy and O’Neill. The monuments are representative of their period and there are no early buildings or structures. The surrounding fence and gates are recent and two timber plot surrounds are of interest.
History Yarrayne was surveyed as a town c1860, however was never settled. The Yarrayne Cemetery was reserved in 1870 on a rise on the east of the Loddon Murray Highway.
Burials continue to take place at the cemetery and have included several of Serpentine's citizens including the O'Neills, Smith, Coutts, Long, Mossop, Fyfe and Davidson.
Thematic 9. Marking the phases of life. 9.7. Disposing of dead bodies. Context
Statement of The Yarrayne Cemetery is located east of the Murray Valley Highway, south of Significance Serpentine and was reserved in 1870 . It is historically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to recall the lives of early settlers in the area including publicans and others whose lives centred on the Murray Valley Highway in the vicinity of the cemetery and whose headstones bear testimony to their endeavours. Its significance is also derived from its planned relationship with the failed settlement at Yarrayne, the isolation of the cemetery today being evidence of this history. Recommendations Not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme because there is no significant fabric other than the headstones for which conservation controls are warranted.
References Cemeteries Inventory, Historic Places Section, DNRE
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jan 2001 Loddon Heritage Study Gl1 Place Farmhouse (abandoned) and salt affected land
Formerly Esler's farm
Address Loddon Valley Highway Gladfield
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 652042 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description This place consists of an open paddock, presently not under crop, a long abandoned timber cottage with recent farm shed at the rear and areas of dead trees to the immediate north and south. The cottage is a ruinous four roomed hip roofed and single fronted timber house with a mortice and tenoned hardwood frame, timber dados (mostly removed) to the interior walls with remnants of hessian and wallpaper above, beaded pine ceilings and a timber ceiling vent in the former living room in the shape of the star of David. The chimneys and the front posted verandah have been removed. There is a timber earth closet in a small gable roofed building to the south, separated from the cottage by a recent fence line.
To the north and south are depressions that retain presumed indigenous trees that have been dead for many years. The area to the south runs down to the Gladfield South Road and contains a small lake surrounded by succulent vegetation. Nearer the house, are collapsed Murray Pine structures, fence posts and a tree trunk, cut off many years ago at fence post height with the iron mongery to support a gate embedded in the trunk. To the north a larger area occupied by dead trees continues to a supply channel.
Integrity: Medium. Condition: Unsound (cottage).
History The farmhouse and trees are part of an original selection of 320 acres taken up in 1874 by A. Esler under the 1869 Land Act. The Act allowed licences (Section 19s) to be taken up for three years at 2/- per acre annual rental. If certain ‘improvements’ were made during this time, the land could be bought for £1 an acre, or a seven year lease (Section 20) could be obtained over which time the balance was paid off. The land in question was ‘improved’ through clearing of trees and through the erection of a ‘2 roomed log house 26’ x 12’, cellar, stockyard, pise shed and two dams’ in 1874. By 1876, the log house had been replaced by a ‘4 roomed soft wood dwelling 29’ x 21’ with brick chimney, a log and shingle stable, storehouse, cart shed, stockyard and piggery, dam and well.
A series of poor years led to mortgages being taken out in 1877 and 1879, and to the farm finally being signed over to the solicitors from which the loan had been taken in order to cover mortgage arrears.
The associated trees are believed to have died in the 1920s, a period when the region began showing signs of high salinity, a result, in part, of the very ‘improvements’ demanded by the conditions of the Land Acts. The locale is irrigated from the Pyramid No.1 channel which is supplied by the Waranga Western channel. This channel was extended as far as the Serpentine Creek in 1912, thereby enabling Goulburn River water to supplement that of the Loddon River to the area. Further improvements to the system of irrigation in the area have followed.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.4 Developing primary production.
Statement of The abandoned farmhouse on the Loddon Valley Highway, Gladfield, to the immediate Significance north of the Gladfield South road, was built in 1876 and it is understood that the trees on the low lying land to the north and south died as a result of increasing salinity levels in the 1920s. The place is historically of interest. This interest, (Criterion A), arises from its capacity to demonstrate the failure of land settlement processes caused by factors that include high salinity levels which are the direct outcome of irrigation practices originating in the 1880s and consolidated by the former State Rivers and Water Supply Commission from the first decade of the twentieth century. Recommendations It is recommended that the cottage be retained and recorded along with the associated debris demonstrating the early history of the place.
References
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1999 Loddon Heritage Study J3 Place Country Fire Brigade depot
Formerly Victorian Railways water tower (relocated)
Address Off Loddon Valley Highway Jarklin
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref.
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The 20,000 gallon water tower is a standard structure of its type with a 20 foot diameter riveted iron plate tank with bellied base supported on 21 foot high cast iron columns with flared papyrus capitals and flared bases on cement pedestal footings. The frame is cross braced with metal ties and intermediate stays and there are associated supply and delivery pipes.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, relocated, no associated railway standpipe.
History A. Roberts and Sons of the United Iron Works at Bendigo constructed the first railway water tank at Inglewood under a contract dated 17th. March, 1876. It was supplemented by the present structure now relocated to Jarklin in 1943 but manufactured during the 1880s when this standard design was placed in production (the leasing plan shows two water towers at Inglewood but one had been removed by 1979).
A new Colourbond CFA building was opened on this site by Area Manager, Bruce Furnell in 1995. The water-tank nearby supplies Jarklin with its water supply, as well as providing water for fire trucks. The original water tank was replaced in 1982 with the present former railway tank from Inglewood.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.7. Moving goods and people. Context 3.7.3.1. Building and maintaining railways. 4. Building settlements, towns and cities. 4.2. Supplying urban services (fire prevention).
Statement of The former Victorian Railways Department standard 20,000 gallon water tank Significance manufactured during the 1880s and relocated to Inglewood railway station in 1943 was relocated again to the Country Fire Brigade depot at Jarklin in 1982. It is historically and technically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a standard late nineteenth century railway water supply tank designed for use by steam locomotives during the Railway Boom and associated for almost 40 years with the railway station at Inglewood. It compares with the surviving identical water tower at Mitiamo within the Shire which is used today also by the local fire brigade. Other examples survive at the State level at locations including Birregurra, Healesville, Penshurst, Robinvale, Serviceton, Streatham (relocated), Sunbury and Warrnambool. It is technically significant (Criterion F) for its capacity to demonstrate a type of water storage facility developed by the Victorian Railways during the 1880s Boom which compares with examples of other designs of the same period. It stands apart from the relatively common rectangular tanks adopted by other Australian railways systems at the time. Its relocation to Jarklin compromises this significance yet its historic association with Inglewood railway station from 1943-1982 enhances its cultural heritage value. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planing Scheme with control over the water tower only.
References Inglewood Leasing Plan.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study BL1 Place St. John's Anglican Church
Formerly St. John's Church of England Church
Address Loddon Valley Highway Bears Lagoon
Property Information
Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 669750 Wedderburn Kinypanial 7625-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative Gothic Revival vernacular timber framed and weatherboard clad church with steeply pitched gabled roof and subordinate front porch. Openings are lancet arched with glazing bars and stained lights. There is a lancet arched fixed louvred vent in the main gable ends with a superimposed king post motif to the façade barges.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, includes row of mature peppercorns and currajongs on the south boundary.
History In the 1890s Bears Lagoon was part of the Raywood Parochial District that stretched from Campbells Forest to Jarklin. In 1908, Bears Lagoon joined with Serpentine and Calivil to become the Serpentine Parochial District. The first minister of the Serpentine Parish was the Rev. John Douglas Watsford who continued to serve the district until 1912.
In 1908, the first board of guardians was formed in Bears Lagoon and resolved to raise the money to build a church. On 3rd December, 1910 Mr D. McCauley was contracted to build a church for the sum of £260. The land was donated by Arthur Whinfield, a wealthy landowner. Community members cleared the land, provided foundation blocks for the building, and carted building materials from the Prairie Railway Station. The church was completed in three months and dedicated by the Bishop of Bendigo, Right Reverend J. D. Langley, in March, 1911. In the years after World War I, attendances fluctuated, however the church remained open and continues to hold services today.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6 Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The St. John's Anglican Church at Bears Lagoon is situated on the Loddon Valley Significance Highway at Bears Lagoon and was dedicated in March 1911 following construction the previous year by D. McCauley. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Church of England, subsequently Anglican worship at Bears Lagoon since 1911 and as a rare surviving public building at Bears Lagoon. It is aesthetically significant (Criterian E) as a representative Gothic Revival vernacular timber church of which there are many in country Victoria but which gives identity to Bears Lagoon. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Sharland, Michael, Those Verdant Plains. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971, pp. 39 & 198 Twigg, Karen and Gwen, Seventy Five Years and More: St Johns Bears Lagoon 1911- 1986.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2000 Loddon Heritage Study Br16 Place Water Supply Works
Formerly Loddon United Water Works Trust water supply works Address Brougham Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 632454 Inglrwood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The Water supply works consist of the following elements: - the weir, being a c.5 metre high coursed bluestone wall extended at the far end by stone pitching and supported by an earth embankment. There are associated lesser concrete structures, presumably of a later date and a concrete spillway. - the gate valves, of which there are four now disused, forming part of a short coursed bluestone tunnel with sloping wing walls on the channel side and dressed stone wall on the weir side. - a deep channel, partly cut through basalt and regulated at a former State Rivers and Water Supply Commission gate valve before passing underneath the Water Wheel Flour Mill railway siding and access road, thence heading east. - revetment, wing wall and stone pitching to the south of the gate valves.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History One of the water supply works proposed by the Water Conservancy Board, formed in 1880 to consider the issue of water supply across Victoria, especially to the northern plains, envisaged the use of the Loddon River. A report by Gordon and Black ascertained that ‘the flow in the Loddon is the most permanent of all the streams within the area, although this permanency exists only for a section of its course – from its source near Daylesford to Bridgewater – the remainder being more or less dry for about one-third of the year.’ It was thus proposed to supply water from the Loddon to an area comprising some 1200 square miles between the parishes of Terrick Terrick West on the east and Keruk in the west, and extending from Bridgewater in the south to Kerang in the north.
The construction of the Loddon system became the responsibility of the Loddon United Water Trust constituted in 1882, and the construction of a weir at Bridgewater the key to the whole system. The weir, completed in 1884 by contractor George Pallet, replaced a weir built c1873 to provide water power for the flour mill. The new weir diverted the Loddon River through stone sluice gates to a main stock and domestic channel which ran cross country to link with Bullock Creek to the east. From here, subsidiary channels were constructed.
The weir, gates and main channel were officially opened by Mr C. Yeo, MLA, on 11th March, 1885. A plaque on the outlet gates features the following names: Hon. D. Coutts, MLC, chairman; J. Coutts’ C. Hutton, R. Kemp, J. Potter, J. Sutherland, J. W. Taverner, commissioners; G. Minto and E. J. Hawkins, engineers; J. Bell, secretary; G. Pallett, contractor; G. Gordon, Government Engineer. George Minto was the engineer for the Shire of Marong from 1874 to 1888, being succeeded by his son, George Minto Junior, in that year.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.10. Altering the environment for economic development. 3.10.3. Irrigating land.
Statement of The headworks of the stock and domestic water supply system established by the Significance Loddon United Water Trust in 1884 were built by George Pallet to the design of G. Minto and E. J. Hawkins, engineers. They are historically important. This importance (Criterion A) arises from the strategic value of the water supply system constructed by the Trust, the channel system commencing at Bridgewater, extending as far as Kerang in the north via the Bullock Creek and supplying over 1200 square miles of agricultural land with a reliable water supply. The headworks are also technically important in that they demonstrate the principal elements required in an installation of their type (Criterion D) and consisting of weir, gate valves and channel. This importance is enhanced by their intact condition. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Australian Heritage Commission Register and the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Sharland, M., These Verdant Plains A History of the Shire of East Loddon, The Hawthorn Press, 1971, pp.54-64.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Ba4 Place Barraport West relief pumping station
Formerly
Address not found Barraport
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref.
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description
History
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Statement of Significance
Recommendations
References Andrew C. Ward and Associates: Mallee Area Review: Study of Historic Sites for the Land Conservation Council, 6/1986, pp.381-82.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1998 Loddon Heritage Study BL3 Place Boag weir
Formerly
Address Off Boort-Fernihurst Road West of Bears Lagoon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 570760 Wedderburn-Kinypanial 7625-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A recent earthen weir with quarried rock surface lining, the remains of the original 15.2 metre long sawn timber weir being in a ruinous state and consisting of piles and walings, many of which are scattered around the site.
Condition: Unsound. Integrity: Low.
History The system of supplying water from the Loddon River for domestic, stock and irrigation purposes was devised by the Water Conservancy Board formed in 1880. It was proposed to supply water to an area of the northern plains comprising some 1200 square miles between the parishes of Terrick Terrick West on the east and Jeruk on the west, and extending from Bridgewater in the south to Kerang in the north. The Loddon United Water Trust, constituted in 1882, became the responsible body for the construction of the system.
As part of the Loddon system, a series of weirs were constructed. To supply the area west of the Loddon River, a timbered weir was built by contractors Pallet and Tamlyn at a cost of £7,388 below the offtake of Kinypanial Creek. The weir directed water from the Loddon River into the Kinypanial Creek and to Woolshed Lake and Lake Boort, and via channels to farms. Mr T. Langdon, MLA, opened the weir in January 1885.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.10. Altering the environment for economic development. 3.10.3. Irrigating land.
Statement of The original Boag weir is situated at the junction of the Loddon River with the Kinypanial Significance Creek and was built in 1884-85 by contractors Pallet and Tamlyn for the Loddon United Water Trust. It is of historic interest as the site of the original weir, the surviving evidence indicating its extent and constructional form. Recommendations It is not recommended that this place be included in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme because of the extent of recent intervention.
References Sharland, Michael, Those Verdant Plains. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971, pp. 62-3
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 2000 Loddon Heritage Study B41 Place Weir (abandoned)
Formerly
Address Kinypaniel Creek, at inlet to Lake Boort Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 473967 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The remains of this structure are situated across a shallow depression on the southern edge of Lake Boort just to the north of the point of entry of the Kinypanial Creek. They consist of two parallel lines of wicker framing, presumably in Murray Pine, approximately 1.8 metres apart and some 42 metres long. They retain what is understood to be a low clay embankment. Towards the west end there is a second similar structure with the parallel lines of framing approximately 1.2 metres apart, set at an angle to the main weir and being about 15 metres long. It connects the main weir with an area of higher ground. The Pine logs are up to 230mm in diameter and consist of double rows retaining horizontal drop logs.
Condition: Stable but ruinous. Integrity: High in spite of deteriorated state.
History Henry Godfrey took up the vast Boort station in 1846 and proceeded to make changes to the landscape so that it met his needs for its use as a pastoral run. These changes included the building of a number of tanks, the erection of several sheepwashes at available water sources, and the building of the homestation dam. This consisted of a clay embankment interlaced with a wicker framework of cypress pine. It was built by Godfrey between the years 1846-1850 to dam a pool on the Kinypanial Creek at the inlet to Lake Boort, and thus provide some guarantee of water supply.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.4. Developing primary production. 3.4.1. Grazing Stock.
Statement of The abandoned weir at the inlet of the Kinypaniel Creek to Lake Boort was built by Significance Henry Godrey between the years 1842 - 1850. It is historically and technically important. It is historically important (Criterion A) as a very rare and possibly unique structure of its type erected during the era of pastoral occupation and recalling the presence of Henry Godfrey on the Boort run between 1846 and 1871. It demonstrates the pastoralists' need for a constant water supply and is technically important (Criterion F) for the information it contains concerning the construction of primitive wiers at the time, comparing with the the stubb fence built by Andrew Beveridge at Tyntynder post 1845. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register, the Australian Heritage Commission Register and for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Historic Plan L 150C, Department of Land and Survey
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Br17 Place Chinese gardens
Formerly
Address Chinaman's Lane Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 632458 Inglrwood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description This site is marked by a group of mature elms on gently sloping ground, the westernmost three being the oldest and one having ironwork embedded in the bark. There is a water hole in a gully connected with the Loddon River to the immediate east. It is overlooked by the remains of a mound presumed to be part of the former horseworks used to raise water for the gardens.
Condition: n.a. Integrity: Low, presumed horseworks mound disturbed, buildings removed.
History The Chinese gardens at Bridgewater were established c1860, the year a title for property of four acres on the west bank of the Loddon River was granted to Loo Ah Yot. Gardens were also established on the east bank of the Loddon after the flood of 1870.
Produce from the gardens was transported by wagons to the goldfields at Inglewood, Wedderburn and Raywood, and to other markets at Serpentine and Tarnagulla. In later years, produce was transported by rail to Melbourne and to the Mallee.
The "Inglewood Advertiser" of 9th December, 1863 carried this description of the gardens:
"[The garden] is well enclosed, and displays several varieties of the fencing handicraft...One side [of the quadrangle] is formed by a most comfortable looking stable, hay store and pig sty; another by the dwelling-house and bedrooms of the Chinese; and the other two by the fencing of the garden. In the yard is a cellar, for the preservation of the cut vegetables, and a large piece of land is covered in with branches laid on poles which serves as a sort of arbour, under which the owners appear to dine...The system of irrigation is most perfect...By means of a common pump water is raised which is conveyed over the grounds in wooden pipes, having openings at intervals, from which the water flows in to tanks. From these the Chinese draw large watering cans full of water and water each plant with its contents."
Water was first obtained from a large hole in an anabranch of the Loddon by a pump driven by horseworks. As the gardens increased in size, the pump was shifted to the main portion of the river. Later pumps were driven by steam and oil engines. In dry years, channels were dug to transport water to the gardens.
The Chinese gardens remained an integral part of Bridgewater until 1926. A small weatherboard house and exotic trees were one of the last remaining signs of evidence of this settlement.
Thematic 3. Developing local regional and national economies. Context 3.4.3. Developing agricultural industries. 3.10.3. Irrigating land.
Statement of The site of the Chinese gardens is located on Chinaman's Lane, Bridgewater and was Significance used to supply the goldfields settlements from c.1860 and later Melbourne markets. It is historically important (Criterion A) as a reminder of the times when vegetable production was typically undertaken by Chinese on the fringes of the goldfields townships, similar low lying ground in the valley of the Bendigo Creek having been used for a this purpose at nearby Bendigo. Today, the presence of the Chinese is recalled by the elms, presumably planted during their occupation and by the presumed horse works mound and natural water hole by the Loddon River. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over tree removal.
References The Chinese gardens at Bridgewater were established c1860, the year a title for property of four acres on the west bank of the Loddon River was granted to Loo Ah Yot. Gardens were also established on the east bank of the Loddon after the flood of 1870.
Produce from the gardens was transported by wagons to the goldfields at Inglewood, Wedderburn and Raywood, and to other markets at Serpentine and Tarnagulla. In later years, produce was transported by rail to Melbourne and to the Mallee.
The "Inglewood Advertiser" of 9th December, 1863 carried this description of the gardens:
"[The garden] is well enclosed, and displays several varieties of the fencing handicraft...One side [of the quadrangle] is formed by a most comfortable looking stable, hay store and pig sty; another by the dwelling-house and bedrooms of the Chinese; and the other two by the fencing of the garden. In the yard is a cellar, for the preservation of the cut vegetables, and a large piece of land is covered in with branches laid on poles which serves as a sort of arbour, under which the owners appear to dine...The system of irrigation is most perfect...By means of a common pump water is raised which is conveyed over the grounds in wooden pipes, having openings at intervals, from which the water flows in to tanks. From these the Chinese draw large watering cans full of water and water each plant with its contents."
Water was first obtained from a large hole in an anabranch of the Loddon by a pump driven by horseworks. As the gardens increased in size, the pump was shifted to the main portion of the river. Later pumps were driven by steam and oil engines. In dry years, channels were dug to transport water to the gardens.
The Chinese gardens remained an integral part of Bridgewater until 1926. A small weatherboard house and exotic trees were one of the last remaining signs of evidence of this settlement. Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Oct 1999 Loddon Heritage Study PH16 Place Cemetery
Formerly
Address South of Pyramid-Leitchville Road Pyramid Hill
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 416050 Nitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative rural cemetery ground enclosed by a recent wire mesh fence but retaining ornamental rolled steel pedestrian and vehicular gates common around the time of the Great War. The place is devoid of structures and the path layout is on a rectangular grid. There are established peppercorns and eucalypts at the rear of the ground and she-oaks and a formal arrangement of sugar gums. Some graves have flag irises. The head stones include examples manufactured by J.B.Wilson and Co., Northern Terrazzo, L.W. Quin and Geo. Ferries, all of Bendigo, and Corden of Clifton Hill. They are representative head stones of their periods being typically of marble or granite but also including bluestone. Burials are predominatly related to people from Bald Rock and Pyramid Hill.
History Settlers in the Pyramid Hill area began taking up land in the mid 1870s. Ten acres for the Pyramid Hill Cemetery was reserved in 1880, although graves date from 1875. The Cemetery contains graves of some the area’s first settlers and is a reminder of the original siting of the township at the foot of Pyramid Hill.
Thematic 9. Marking the phases of life. 9.7. Disposing of dead bodies. Context
Statement of The Pyramid Hill cemetery is located a short distance to the south of the Pyramid- Significance Leitchville Road on the east bank of the Pyramid Creek. It was gazetted in 1880 and contains burials from as early as 1875. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) especially on account of its location within the former settlement of Pyramid Hill that was relocated to its present site following the opening of the railway in 1884. It is significant also for the information it contains concerning the settlers buried there which collectively extends over one and a quarter centuries, commencing in 1875. Recommendations Not recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme because there is no significant fabric other than the headstones for which conservation controls are warranted.
References Cemetery Inventory, Historic Places Section, DNRE Parish Plan
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2001 Loddon Heritage Study E4 Place Church (closed)
Formerly St. Paul's Church of England
Address Owen Street Eddington
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 546146 Laanecoorie South 7624-2-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A picturesque Gothic Revival Church with red body bricks and white dressings, the nave with steeply pitched roof being subdivided into four bays by buttresses and having a porch with surmounting belcote and side porch. The belcote rises above the front porch in four stages having lancet arched openings, the third stage being distinguished by the use of a spherical equilateral triangular vent. The principle windows and openings are lancet arched. The roof is corrugated iron clad.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: high (exterior), defaced opening towards rear, south side, original slate roof replaced by corrugated iron, fence with picket gate removed.
History In February 1865, a meeting of Anglicans was held in the Primitive Methodist Chapel at Eddington to elect Trustees of the land acquired for a Church of England. The site chosen lay opposite Sheehan’s Flour Mill. Prior to the building of the church building, services were held in the Methodist church.
The foundation stone for St. Paul’s Church was laid in April, 1865 by the Bishop of Melbourne, Dr. Charles Perry. A procession marked the occasion and a bottle containing a scroll and a copy of the Dunolly & Bet Bet Shire Express was deposited in a cavity under the foundation stone.
Tenders were called for the building, and a Mr William Edwards was awarded the masonry and brickwork at a cost of £196; the total cost of the architect and builders was £1332. The altar rail, pulpit and seats cost £240.
The church was opened on April 24th, 1866. A Sunday school started in 1884.
Centenary celebrations were held in April 1966. On 4th. October, 1970, the Rev. L.J. Somers-Smith conducted his last service at St. Paul's and the church was closed soon afterwards. It was offered for sale and purchased in December 1972 for use as a private residence.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6. Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship. Statement of The former St. Paul's Church of England church at Eddington is situated in Owen Significance Street, Eddington, on the perimeter of the township. Construction commenced in April, 1865 and the church was opened on April 24th, 1866. The masonry was erected by a Mr. William Edwards. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Anglican worship at Eddington since 1866 when this township was a staging point and source of agricultural produce for the goldfields. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a picturesque and representative bi-chromatic Gothic Revival parish church of its time, the belcote being especially distinctive. It compares with the Church of St. John the Evangelist at Newbridge (1864), designed by Bendigo architercts Vahland and Getzschmann, St. Mary the Virgin at Kangaroo Flat, designed by Nathanial Billing in 1862 and the former Methodist Church at Kangaroo Flat designed by Crouch and Wilson in 1872. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Eddington: A History, Past and Present, Maldon Times Print, n.d., pp. 15-17 Carless, R.L., Eddington Reflections, Back to Eddington Committee, 1983, pp.67-72.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study E5 Place McCoy Street town centre
Formerly
Address McCoy Street between Bridge site and Pla Eddington
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 547145 Laanecoorie South 7624-2-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description
History
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Statement of Significance
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References
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study E6 Place Bridge Inn hotel
Formerly Goulden's Bridge Inn hotel
Address McCoy Street Eddington
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 548146 Laanecoorie south 7624-2-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A small single storeyed overpainted brick hotel with timber posted verandah to the corner splay returning along the north and west elevations. There is a plain stuccoed parapet (defaced) and double doors to the former bar in the corner splay with the original window openings on either side. The timber posts have fretted ornamentation at the verandah beams but the capitals have been removed. There is also a cellar and associated well.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium, upper section of parapet and bracketed cornice with simple pedimented form to the corner splay removed. Additions to the south and east.
History The first land sale at Eddington was held in 1857. A bridge across the Loddon River was built in 1861, and land within the township offered for sale in 1864. The nucleus of the township formed at the river crossing.
One of the buildings that was erected near the bridge was a wine shanty and store. This may have been the forerunner to the Bridge Inn Hotel believed to have been built c1866. It is noted, along with the adjoining store, as being in the ownership as Mr W. H. Mayo in 1867. The store and hotel was sold to Mr R. J. Goulden in 1868. A new concrete bridge upstream of the bridge served by the Bridge Inn hotel was opened in 1929 and it is presumed that the importance of this hotel declined from this time.
It is not known when the Bridge Inn and store closed. Today they are both privately owned and used as a residence. Large peppercorn trees on the site may mark the original track used by diggers en route to the goldfields at Bendigo, Clunes and Ballarat.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. 3.11 Feeding people. 3.11.5. Context Retailing food and beverages. 3.7.3. Moving goods and people on land.
Statement of The former Bridge Inn hotel at the bridge site in McCoy Street, Eddington, was built Significance presumably for Mr W. H. Mayo c. 1866. It was subsequently run by Mr R. J. Goulden in conjunction with a store, since demolished at the south end of the building. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as an early surviving hotel at Eddington comparing with the surviving Eddington hotel (also closed) and the demolished Commercial hotel. It is representative to the extent that it is a small building of its type demonstrating aspects of the township's rise and decline following the relocation of the river crossing point from 1929. It is important also to the extent that it helps interpret the form of the township established following the opening of the river crossing at this point in 1861, the absence of the bridge today causing this end of McCoy Street to appear to have no obvious purpose. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Eddington Township Area.
References Eddington: A History, Past and Present, Maldon Times Print, n.d., p. 11 Victorian Local Government Department, Tullaroop Shire Local History File, SLV
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study E7 Place "Loddon View"
Formerly Eddington Police Station
Address Taylor's Lane Eddington
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 548143 Laanecoorie South 7624-2-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative mid - late nineteenth century timber police quarters of four rooms having an asymmetrical or double fronted façade treatment with posted verandah and double gable roofed form dominated by brick chimneys characteristic of the Public Works Department's work of the period. Associated buildings and structures include the overpainted brick lock-up on a sandstone plinth accommodating three cells, a well and presumed wash house.
Condition: Medium (quarters), High (lock-up). Integrity: Medium (quarters), recent aluminium cladding and additions, High (lock-up)
History Eddington, then part of the Carisbrook Police District, had a police presence from c1865 thought to have been housed in a private residence. (In 1875 Eddington was transferred to the Maryborough District, to the North Western District in 1878, and to the Midlands District in 1892.)
A building for specific use as a police station was opened in June 1873.
The 1930 Victorian Police Gazette notes that in that year Eddington had a population of 1,000 and was manned by one Foot Constable (with bicycle). The police station consisted of a 5 roomed (constructed of plaster and paper) weatherboard dwelling with iron roof on 1 acre of land (a portion of a 17 acre reserve). The police office, housed in the residence, measured 7 feet by 5 feet. Outbuildings included stabling (of two stalls), shed and a one-cell lock-up. Water was accessed from an underground tank.
The police station closed in September 1934.
Today the building is used as a private residence with the lock-up, stables and well (now covered over) in situ.
Thematic 7. Governing. 7.5.4. Policing Australia. Context Statement of The former Eddington police station complex, now occupied as a residence known as Significance "Loddon View", is situated on Taylor's Lane, Eddington and includes the original quarters built presumably in 1873 to the design of the Victorian Public Works Department when William Wardell was inspector general of public works. Contributory elements include the quarters, lock-up, well and presumed wash house. The police station was closed in 1934. It is historically and aesthetically important.
It is historically important (Criterion A) not only as the centre of policing activity in Eddington from 1873 until 1934 but also as a surviving example of a standard Departmental design for quarters in common use between 1880 and 1886, comparative examples remaining at Bridgewater on Loddon, Kangaroo Flat and possibly at Moyston. The presumed construction of these quarters in 1873 suggests that Eddington is a very early example of this standard design. A comparable building at Murchison has been demolished. Whilst this importance is enhanced by the other buildings that make up the complex, although the stables have been demolished, it is the very survival of a police station at all at this now small township that offers remarkable testimony to the Colonial Government's policing methods during the nineteenth century.
It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as a representative design for a small police station complex during the mid - late Victorian period characterised by its austerity and details characteristic of the Public Works Department's designs for smaller buildings. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Eddington Township Area
References Eddington: A History, Past and Present, Maldon Times Print, n.d., p.21 Police Historical Unit Records Victoria Police Gazette, June 2, 1930 This building is not mentioned in B. Trethowan's thesis entitled The Public Works Department of Victoria: 1851-1900 Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study E8 Place Presbyterian Church
Formerly
Address McCoy Street Eddington
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 546144 Laanecoorie South 7624-2-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative mid Victorian small parish church in the Gothic Revival mode, the nave being subdivided into three bays with buttresses and the façade having a central projecting porch and a small belcote in the gable apex above a spherical equilateral triangular cartouche. There is a subordinate sympathetic extension at the rear, the nave having a slate roof and the extension and porch having a corrugated iron roof. The sill is continuous along the length of the nave and the extension adding visual interest to the side elevations. The windows have diamond pattern lead light work with stylised leaf motifs
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium, Inter war period works include the provision of a rough cast facing to all elevations, presumably concealing a bi-chromatic brick treatment. There are recent skylights in the slate roof and a metal faced door on the south side. The grounds are defined by mature sugar gums and by the front gates in wrought iron with cement faced piers.
History In August, 1862, a number of Presbyterian residents met with Rev. J. Steele from the Castlemaine Presbytery to establish a Presbyterian church in Eddington. Committee meetings were held weekly, and with the induction of the Rev. T. A. Hamilton from Scotland into the Pastoral Charge of Tarnagulla and Eddington in 1863, tenders were called for the building of a church in the township.
The tender of Mr J. Nottage of Newbridge at a cost of £685 was accepted. The foundation stone of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church was laid by Mrs White on 1st October, 1863. The church was built of brick with a softwood ceiling and plaster walls and the Vestry added at a later date.
It is believed that renovations, including the rendering of the external brickwork and the installation of memorial windows and a marble memorial tablet were carried out c. 1918. The newly remodelled church was unveiled by the then premier of Victoria, Sir Harry Lawson.
Centenary celebrations were held in October, 1963.
The church continues to be used today to hold services for a range of denominations. Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6. Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The Presbyterian Church at Eddington is located in McCoy Street at the Playfair Street Significance intersection. It was built in 1863-64 by Mr. J. Nottage, refurbished and extended c.1918 and remains in use today as a place of worship. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Presbyterian worship at Eddington since 1864, surviving today as the only place of worship in the township and now available to other denominations for their use. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a representative small mid Victorian parish church in the Gothic Revival style, devoid of unnecessary enrichment in the manner of the Presbyterians, but unfortunately defaced by the Inter War period refurbishment including the provision of rough cast facings to all elevations. Its dominant position at the Playfair/McCoy Streets corner enhances the aesthetic values of the place, providing a crucial link in the Heritage Overlay Area between the commercial buildings further north in McCoy Street and the school to the south. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Eddington Township Area
References Eddington: A History, Past and Present, Maldon Times Print, n.d., pp. 19-21 Carless, R.L., Eddington Reflections, Back to Eddington Committee, 1983, pp.63-66.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study E9 Place School building, quarters and play ground (clos
Formerly Eddington State School no. 793
Address McCoy Street Eddington
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 547142 Laanecoorie South 7624-2-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A representative late Victorian Public Works Department designed rural school building in the Gothic Revival mode being distinguished by its steeply pitched roof and picturesque form with subordinate porches and emphasis given to the stylistic value of gable ends incorporating half timbering motifs to the barge treatments. Segmentally arched windows with quoins and drip moulds, quoins to the external corners and a continuous sill mould enhance the Gothic treatment whilst an enlarged window facing east and rough cast surfaces appear to be later works.
The earlier associated polychrome brick quarters has an asymmetrical (double fronted) façade treatment with a hipped corrugated iron clad roof and timber posted verandah with ornamentral timber brackets in the Queen Anne mode. The eaves are bracketed and the polychrome work consists of red body bricks relieved by white and black bands at sill level and plinth level.
The school ground rotunda has been relocated to the Mechanics Institute reserve opposite.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium (school on the basis that the rough cast work is not original). High (quarters).
History Prior to the opening of the first school at Eddington, classes were held in the Primitive Methodist Church. The first school building, constructed of bluestone, opened in February 1862 under the National Board. Later that year the school came under the control of the Board of Education. The school closed in May 1865.
Eddington State School No. 793 opened in the same timber building in January 1867. In 1872, a new brick building accommodating 120 children was completed at a cost of £358 19s by builders Smith and Mosely. This building had an upstairs gallery with a chimney at each end, and windows close to the roof. The original wooden building was removed from the grounds in 1878 to be used as a dwelling by a local resident.
In 1881, two blocks of land adjacent to the school were added to the site. During the 1880s attendance reached 100 and in 1890, a four-room teacher residence was constructed. In the same year, two portable detached rooms were added to the school to provide extra accommodation for the growing population.
In August 1890, a fire, started by a lamp, totally destroyed the school. While the new brick school was under construction during1890-1, children studied in a room at the rear of Nuttall’s Hotel. The new building, 40 feet by 20 feet, was opened in 1892. Built at a cost of £500, it accommodated 75 pupils.
The school and residence were repaired in 1903.
Eddington school closed c1992. The school residence is now privately owned.
Thematic 6. Educating. Context 6.2 Establishing Schools.
Statement of The former Eddington State School complex (no. 793) is located in Playfair Street, Significance Eddington with the school overlooking the McCoy Street corner. The school was presumably opened here in 1862, the present quarters and school building being erected in 1890 and 1890-91 respectively. The school was closed c.1992.The complex is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the centre of Government sponsored education throughout the township's prosperous years and until the post war era. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a representative late Victorian period complex erected just prior to the 1890s depression and exhibiting stylistic characteristics representative of the Public Works Department at the time. They include the Gothic Revival expression in the Queen Anne mode which compares also with Boort (1908). This significance is enhanced by the dominant position of the school facing the McCoy/Playfair Streets corner and by its status at the southern gateways to the Eddington Heritage Overlay Area. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Eddington Township Area
References Blake, L. J. (ed.) Vision and Realisation: A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria, Volume 2. Education Department of Victoria, Melbourne, 1973, p. 688-9 Carless, Ronald, L., Eddington Reflections, Back to Eddington Committee, St. Arnaud, 1983, pp. 122-5
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B44 Place
Formerly Power station
Address Pyramid Road Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 457994 Boort-Durham Ox 7625-N
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study L13 Place General Store (closed)
Formerly
Address Maldon Road Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 584203 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A double gable roofed timber framed and corrugated iron clad general store with reconstructed shop windows and a large sheet metal faced parapet wall formerly accommodating signage. There is a cantilevered verandah of recent origin.
Condition: Medium. Integrity: Medium.
History The community of Laanecoorie (also known as Janevale) was established around the school built in 1864. With the opening of a bridge across the Loddon at Laanecoorie in 1870, the township of Laanecoorie flourished. By 1879, it consisted of a number of businesses and a population of 150.
Thomas and Comerie built a grocers shop in 1872 as one of the first commercial enterprises in Laanecoorie after the bridge was built in 1870. Erected by a Mr. Gun, the partially completed building was blown down during as storm early in November, 1872. A report in the Tarnagulla and Llanelly Courier on November 30th, 1872, contained this description of the store:
Not far from [the] Hotel that enterprising firm Messrs Thompson and Comerie of Tarnagulla, have erected and nearly finished a large and substantially constructed building which when furnished with the miscellaneous and extensive assortment of goods usually [found] in up-country stores, will prove not only a paying investment to the owners, but of great convenience and advantage to the residents in the vicinity. The store at this stage was much smaller than the present building (see early views). It was run by the Hodges c. 1917 followed by Alf Anderson, Fred and Mary Davis, Ben and Maud Bohn, Charlie Johnson, Harry Dean, the Lawsons, Ohlsen, Hovey, Mr. and Mrs. Jarry, the Knowles and the Saunders until 1983 when it was taken over by Jennifer Cain who remained there presumably until closure.
The General Store which also functioned as the post office and a petrol filling station at different times was closed during the 1990s.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Laanecoorie). Context Statement of The former Laanecoorie general store, post office and petrol filling station was erected Significance over a period commencing with the first stage being built by a Mr. Gun for Messrs. Thomas and Comerie in 1872. It is situated in the Main Street at the Loddon River bridge and is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the only general store to have been built in Laanecoorie, its survival after the township's four hotels now all demolished but one being in itself remarkable and affording an insight into the nature of the central town area which was formed around the bend in the street leading onto the Janevale bridge, this space being defined also by the Laanecoorie Bridge hotel. The use of corrugated iron cladding is of technical interest and contributes to the cultural values of the place, the use of light sheet materials being made attractive by the distance of Laanecoorie from the nearest rail head. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme within the Eddington Township Area
References Cain, Jennifer E., Laanecoorie: Hub of the Universe, n.p. n.d.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study L14 Place Former Foundry
Formerly
Address Maldon Road Laanecoorie
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 584203 Laanecoorie North 7624-2-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A double gable roofed brick former foundry and blacksmith's shop with presumed recent additions and a façade now defaced by large sliding sheet metal doors and associated sheet metal lined parapet.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium (?)
History The community of Laanecoorie (also known as Janevale) was established around the school built in 1864. With the opening a bridge across the Loddon at Laanecoorie in 1870, the township of Laanecoorie flourished. By 1879, it consisted of a number of businesses and a population of 150.
The foundry was one of the first commercial enterprises established after the opening of the bridge across the Loddon River in 1870. It was opened by Mr Bousfield c1873. The Tarnagulla and Llanelly Courier reported on January 8th, 1875 that:
…we were astonished to see the great improvements made within the last twelve months. Outside there were tons of castings of wheels and other works required for agricultural machinery, and we expect that at the next district show we shall see Mr Bousfield figure largely in the implement line. The workshop, a very large one, has more the appearance of a metropolitan factory…[with] a powerful steam hammer…lathes of all sorts, drills, punchers and lots of other machines…At the far end of the building is a powerful engine, which keeps all machinery in motion. Adjoining the engine is the foundry, where all sorts of patterns are being imbeded [sic]... Altogether the place presents a busy and substantial appearance, …and Mr Bousfield told us that he should be shortly obliged to considerably increase the size of the building and appliances.
Thematic 4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Laanecoorie). Context
Statement of The former foundry established c.1873 by Mr. Bousfield is situated in the main street of Significance the Laanecoorie township to the east of the former Store. It is historically significant. It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a rare surviving building of its type in the region, comparing with "Golden City Implements" at Iron Bark in Bendigo and the former blacksmith's shop in Korong Vale. It is important also for its capacity to demonstrate the self reliance of small community's such as Laanecoorie in the nineteenth century when the local foundry/blacksmith looked after the mechanical needs of the community as well as engaging in the export of products. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Cain, Jennifer E., Laanecoorie: Hub of the Universe, n.p. n.d.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study N7 Place Farm house (abandoned)
Formerly
Address Stewart's Road Newbridge
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 604296 Inglewood South 7624-1-S
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study N8 Place Farm house (abandoned)
Formerly
Address Stewart's Road Newbridge
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 615296 Inglewood South 7624-1-S
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Se3 Place St. Saviour's Anglican Church
Formerly St. Saviour's Church of England
Address Loddon Valley Highway Serpentine
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 666665 Wedderburn-Kinypanial 7625-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description An Arts and Crafts influenced timber framed Gothic Revival church with a side porch and surmounting bell tower. There are subordinate extensions to the west and south. The bell tower has a flared pyramidal roof with surmounting iron finial and the bressemmer to the porch is enriched in the Arts and Crafts mode. The roof is steeply pitched and corrugated iron clad and there are lancet motifs in the windows.
Inside, the wall and ceiling linings are Baltic Pine lined.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium
History Anglican services for residents of Serpentine and region were initially held in the Serpentine Hall.
St. Saviour’s Church, a gift of Mr Percy Mann, was one of the later Anglican churches to be built in the area. It was dedicated by Bishop John D. Langley on 31st March, 1912. Percy Mann was a wealthy English brewer who occupied "Albert Park" to the south of Serpentine from 1911. He had emigrated for the sake of his wife's health but she unfortunately died, Percy paying for the new church as a memorial to his wife who died on 21st. September, 1911.
The church continues to house services today.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6. Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of St. Saviour's Anglican Church at Serpentine is located on the Loddon Valley Highway Significance and was dedicated on 31st. March 1912. It was the gift of Mr. Mann. It is historically and aesthetically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) not only as the centre of Church of England, later Anglican, worship at Serpentine since 1912 but also for its associations with Percy Mann and his wife, the former's generosity recalling the once not uncommon practice of making substantial gifts to local churches to enable the erection of places for worship. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a representative Arts and Crafts influenced small parish church, the bell tower and porch being the salient feature demonstrating this stylistic theme which compares also with the Church of Christ at Boort (1927). Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Sharland, Michael, Those Verdant Plains. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971, pp. 38-39, 198.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study Br19 Place Cemetery
Formerly
Address Off Bridgewater Serpentine Road Bridgewater
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 634483 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Includes mature trees.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study M7 Place Farm house site
Formerly
Address Jones' Lane Mologa
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 464963 Mitiamo-Patho 7725-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Granite chimney base and mature tree by Bullock Creek.
History Possibly ruins (chimney base) of the Jones' farm, the later timber framed house, now abandoned, being situated a little to the north.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study S2 Place Closed School
Formerly Shelbourne School
Address Corner Marong-Woodstock Road and Blos Shelbourne
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 342161 Shelbourne 7724-3-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A ruinous single classroom overpainted brick school building with porch, timber posted verandah and store (?). There is a stone plinth, segmental windows with cement sills and corrugated galvanised iron clad shallow pitched gable roof, the gutter resting on a continuous projecting brick course.
Inside, the timber lined ceilings have sloping sides, tie rods and ventilators and the solid plaster walls retain an early scheme of decoration with a mid green dado, cream fill and black line, black skirtings and stone architraves. The fireplace with surround and blackboard are in situ.
The school block is situated at a road intersection and surrounded by gum trees and there is a cistern in the yard, the hand pump having been removed.
Condition: Unsound, severe structural movement following a long period of neglect. Integrity: High.
History The school at Shelbourne was opened as a vested common school under the control of the Board of Education on 1st. September, 1868. The residence was destroyed by fire at an early date and for many years the post office was attached to the school. It finally closed on 23rd. August, 1950 and the building was taken over by the Soil conservation Authority in July, 1964. It was also known as Shelbourne West.
Thematic 6. Educating. Context 6.2 Establishing Schools.
Statement of The former Shelbourne School, also known as Shelbourne West, was opened on 1st. Significance September, 1868 and closed on 23rd. August, 1950. It is historically important. This importance (Criterion A) is derived from the capacity of the place to demonstrate the standards of accommodation required by the Common Schools Board in the period 1862-1872 preceding the formation of the Education Department in 1873. As a single room school building, the provision of small porch, classroom with fire place on the side wall and windows opposite were characteristic elements. The simplicity of the design and absence of ornamentation recalls the poverty of the district and/or the lack of interest in providing a more imposing structure. The place also recalls the population of the goldfields hinterland following the various land Selection Acts during the 1860s and the consequent need for schools. Shelbourne compares in these respects with Lockwood, Evansford (1867), Majorca, Cobaw (1871) and others. The role of the place as a post office is of interest. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over interior alterations.
References Education Department of Victoria: "Vision and Realisation", 1973 v.2, p.455.
Assessed by: Assessment date: Loddon Heritage Study W5 Place Farmhouse (ruins)
Formerly
Address Church Road (northern extension) Woodstock on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 339298 Leichardt 7724-4-3
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Uncoursed rubble stone ruins with mud facing and white wash to the inside surfaces. Shingle lined roof collapsed.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study W6 Place Howe's Junction Inn (ruins)
Formerly
Address Kangaroo Flat - Newbridge Road Woodstock on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 357249 Shelbourne 7724-3-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Ruins are situated to south of the road in a paddock.
History Built 1856.
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References Memorial plaque in front of former State School.
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study W7 Place Farm house
Formerly
Address Church Road (extension to north) Woodstock on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 335260 Shelbourne 7724-3-4
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Group of buildings with garden and mature trees.
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study Br18 Place Church (closed)
Formerly
Address Eldon Street Bridgewater on Loddon
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 634448 Inglewood North 7624-1-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description Timber Church (poor condition).
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Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Nov 1999 Loddon Heritage Study C6 Place Calival Reserve Memorial Hall
Formerly
Address Praire West Road Calival
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 369787 Dingee-Kamarooka 7225-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description The memorial hall is a utilitarian Post Second World War structure of Mount Gambier stone with a stepped parapet to the façade above a central arcaded porch flanked by metal framed windows. The words "Calivil Hall To The Pioneers" in wrought iron copperplate form have been placed centrally above the entry. The sides of the building are buttressed and there is a similar parapeted rear elevation. Inside, the building is subdivided into the main hall and supper room. There are honour rolls to those who participated in both wars.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High.
History The Calivil Memorial Hall, dedicated ‘To the Pioneers’, was built in 1960 to replace the corrugated iron Calivil Hall erected in 1909. The new Hall, because it was constructed from Mt. Gambier sandstone, attracted much local interest. A cement brick kitchen extension was added c1995. The Hall contains Honor Rolls that list names of those who served in World War I and II.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.1 Organising recreation. Context
Statement of The Calivil memorial hall is situated on the Prairie West Road at Calivil and was erected Significance in 1960. It is of cultural interest as a public building in the Calival township area, but its significance for its association with the pioneers of the area is diminished by its recent construction date. Recommendations It is not recommended that the memorial hall be placed on the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table on account of its recent date and aesthetic values.
References Ray Smith, caretaker, Calivil Reserve Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Jul 2000 Loddon Heritage Study TT1 Place Farmhouse (abandoned)
Formerly
Address Kow Swamp Mitiamo Road Terrick Terrick
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. E255400 N600150 Mitiamo-Patho 7725N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A timber framed weatherboard clad farmhouse overlooking the site of the Terrick Terrick township. It has been erected in several stages consisting of a hip roofed front two roomed section with timber posted bullnosed verandah to three sides and a double gable roofed rear section with a gable roofed wing forming an L shape at the rear. The latter sections are partially protected by a timber posted skillion verandah. The façade is symmetrical consisting of double hung windows either side of a central doorway but the rear sections lack such formality. There are red brick chimneys and corrugated iron roofing. Inside, there are diagonally lined pine dados in the hall and front rooms with stencilled and papered wall and ceiling papers on hessian backing and also pine ceiling linings. There is an archway in the hall.
Condition: Ruinous. Integrity: High, includes remnant brick edged garden beds and pathways, galvanised iron outbuildings.
History Terrick Terrick township, used as a stopover by the drivers of bullock and horse wagons en route to and from the Murray River at Echuca, was settled c1873 and, by 1874, consisted of an hotel, three stores, a bank, police station, church and stockyard. The town grew as selectors took up blocks in the area from the mid-1870s under the 1869 Land Act. The Australian Handbook of 1884 described the township thus: Terrick Terrick is a post town and money order office in the Co. of Gunbower 158 miles north of Melbourne. It has two General Stores, a Public House (The Terrick Terrick), a Police Station, State School (No. 1712), average attendance 31, Catholic Church (St. Lukes), and under 50 residents. The district is devoted to wheat growing and grazing, but is much hampered by the difficulty of getting grain to the market, most of which is having to be carted to Sandhurst…
The chosen route for the railway from Bendigo to Swan Hill saw the line bypass Terrick in favour of Pyramid Hill. The opening of the railway in 1885 thus saw the beginning of the demise of Terrick Terrick township.
It is believed that Thomas Davies, a Welshman, opened one of the township’s stores in 1873. Davies took up a 280 block on the southern outskirts of the Terrick Terrick township c1872, and under the provisions of Sections 19 and 20 of the 1869 Land Act, owned the selection by 1877. Between Thomas and his brother (?) Edwin, a total area of 1200 acres was selected and used for wheat and sheep farming.
The first house on this site built by Thomas Davies was constructed of logs and consisted of four rooms petitioned by walls made from carpet. The house was also used as a post office where mail was delivered from Rochester and Echuca, sorted, then delivered to Pyramid Hill. During this period, a hotel existed across the road. It later burnt down and the hotel shifted to the Terrick Terrick township reserve.
The house was used for Anglican church services from 1902.
The original house was pulled down c1912 and a new four-roomed residence built. The former hotel bar from the Terrick Terrick township was shifted on to the site and incorporated into the building as a living-room. (This is now the room featuring the fireplace and stencilled walls.) A detached kitchen and dining room stood at the rear of the house.
Further additions (cement sheet and ply interior and weatherboard exterior) were made to the house c1934 when an attached kitchen and bathroom were built.
Three generations of the Davies family lived on the farm; the last of the family being Miss Dorothy Davies who sold the property in 1998. It is now part of the Terrick Terrick National Park.
By 1938, Terrick Terrick township was evidenced by a lone church building; today the only testimony to the township of Terrick Terrick is the Davies’ house.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.4 Developing primary production.
Statement of The former Davies farm house overlooking the site of the Terrick Terrick township is Significance situated on the Kow Swamp - Mitiamo road. It was built c.1912 by a member of the Davies family. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the sole remaining building associated with the Terrick Terrick township, abandoned in favour of settlement along the railway through Mitiamo and Pyramid Hill from 1885. It compares in this respect with the site of old Pyramid Hill. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Sources: Miss Dorothy Davies, former owner Sharland, Michael, Those Verdant Plains. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1971, p. 143 Stevens, Helen, Rocks, Pines and People: The Terrick Terrick, Sylvaterre, Bald Rock Story. Pyramid Hill, Pyramid Hill and District Historical Society, n.d. Terrick Terrick West Parish Plan Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Apr 2001 Loddon Heritage Study E10 Place Loddon River Bridge
Formerly
Address Bendigo Maryborough Road Eddington
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 554139 Laanecoorie South 7624-2-S
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A substantial reinforced concrete twelve span bridge with curved longitudinal beams and canted pylons connected by arches and having cutwater profiles. Sides are supported on small cantilevers, the original elements being curved to complement the curved girders. The alignment is also curved and the handrails recent. The carriageway width has been extended by the additon of a second row of pylons.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium
History The original bridge built across the Loddon River at Eddington in 1861 was washed away in floods in the 1870s, and again in 1909 when the banks of the Laanecoorie Weir burst.
The current bridge was built by the Country Roads Board and opened on 7th. October, 1929. It was considered to be the longest of its kind in Victoria at the time. The bridge was widened in 1970 and with the new approaches from the Dunolly side the township of Eddington was effectively by-passed.
Thematic 3. Developing local, regional and national economies. Context 3.7.3. Moving goods and people on land. 3.7.3.2. Building and maintaining roads.
Statement of The Loddon River bridge at Eddington is situated on the Maryborough-Bendigo road and Significance was designed by the Country Roads Board, being opened on 27th. October, 1929. It is historically significant.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the bridge that diverted passing traffic away from the main street of Eddington which had grown up on McCoy Street leading onto the earlier bridge over the Loddon River at its north end. It is important also as the longest reinforced concrete girder bridge to be erected by the Country Roads Board in Victoria at the time. It is especially important locally because its design represents a development from the earlier and highly significant Loddon River bridge at Laanecoorie, the curved girders and cantilevers possibly representing a more standard approach to bridge design developed by the Country Roads Board by this time and seen also at Charlton where the Avoca River was spanned in 1923. In this way the Shire of Loddon contains both seminal and highly representative early examples of reinforced concrete bridge construction in Victoria. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Eddington: A History, Past and Present, Maldon Times Print, n.d., p. 8
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study B40 Place Site of Boort Swimming baths
Formerly Boort Swimming Baths
Address Lake View Street Boort
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Location Boundaries Map / Plan ref. 439993 Boort Durham Ox 7625-N
Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A mature Moreton Bay fig tree and several mature palm trees marking the place where the original swimming baths that extended out into the lake were located.
History The Moreton Bay fig marks the place where part of Little Lake was used as public baths by Boort residents. In the late 1950s, palms were planted to provide shade for the swimmers. In the mid-1960s this end of the lake was reclaimed, a park formed and a swimming pool built in 1967.
The Moreton Bay fig and palms remain as testimony to the earlier use of this part of Little Lake as swimming baths.
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. Context 8.1 Organising recreation.
Statement of The Moreton bay fig and palm trees marking the site of the former swimming baths are Significance situated on lake View Street, Boort and were associated with the baths that extended into Little Lake Boort. They are historically significant.
They are historically significant (Criterion A) for their association with the former swimming baths which like so many such baths established during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries made use of natural water bodies such as rivers and lakes. The trees also have aesthetic value being mature examples of their species. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme with control over tree removal.
References Local residents Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: May 2001 Loddon Heritage Study Ba5 Place Baptist Church
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Address Barraport
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Existing Heritage Council Register No Listings Government Building Register No National Estate Register No Planning Scheme No Description A conservative presumed timber framed and rendered church, cruciform on plan and having an approximately quarter pitch corrugated iron clad gable roof. The walls of the nave are buttressed and all of the steel framed and lead lit windows have shallow triangular heads. There is a porch at the front and a cartouche in the surmounting gable end reading "1958 Barraport Baptist Church". The eaves follow the roof pitch and are suggestive of an earlier date.
There is an associated timber framed and weatherboard clad hall at the rear of similar utilitarian form and having window hoods with decorated valences. Inside, the rear section is lined with painted pine boards. There are panelled timber doors and a stage in the east end, the balance of the wall linings being strapped fibrous plaster boards.
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Presumed high, rear addition to hall. The boundary is indicated by sugar gums and white marker posts to the driveway.
History Early church records show that in the 1880s Rev. George Slade, of the Baptist Church Mission based at Kerang, travelled a circuit of 200 miles. Early services were held in the Barraport School until the Barraport Baptist Church and manse were built in 1884. Baptismal ceremonies were held at Lake Boort. The Sunday School was opened in 1896.
A new church was opened on the site in 1957 by the Rev. Manning, the date on the building reading 1958. It remains in use today
Thematic 8. Developing cultural institutions and ways of life. 8.6. Worshipping. 8.6.3. Making Context places for worship.
Statement of The Barraport Baptist Church is understood to have been built in 1957-58. It is of Significance historic significance. It is of historic significance (Criterion A) as a rare surviving public building at Barraport, comparing in this respect with the former State School, now derelict, and the general store (closed). It is important also as the continuing centre of Baptist worship in the Barraport district, having its origins in the 1880s. Recommendations Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the Shire of Loddon Planning Scheme.
References Stevens, Fay, Smoke From the Hill: A Story of the Boort District 1836-1968. Cambridge Press, Bendigo, 1969, p. 167
Assessed by: Andrew Ward Assessment date: Feb 2001