"Nerowie" Outbuildings (Buckler's Farm)
52 Bucklers Road PARWAN, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Nerowie Outbuildings and their setting at 52 Bucklers Road, Parwan.
How is it significant?
The Nerowie Outbuildings and their setting at 52 Bucklers Road, Parwan are of local historical and architectural significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The Nerowie Outbuildings and their setting at 52 Bucklers Road, Parwan are of historical significance as rare surviving 19th century buildings in Parwan representing the early farming settlement of the area. They contribute to the significance of the overall farm complex, which is partially (the farmhouse and stone walls), within the Melton Shire. The complex of outbuildings is of local historical significance for its associations with the Staughton family, dominant landholders in the north-western Port Phillip region in the nineteenth century. The property was established in the 1890s by Stephen John Staughton, a President of the Shire of Bacchus Marsh and member of the third generation of the Staughton pastoral family.
The Nerowie Outbuildings and their setting at 52 Bucklers Road, Parwan are of aesthetic significance as an intact collection of farm outbuildings, demonstrating key features of their building types and the types of farm outbuildings constructed in the late Victorian period. The key features include the roof forms, corrugated iron cladding, and position and types of openings.
1995
An unusual Edwardian brick farmhouse with timber outbuildings and drystone walls, originally within Simon Staughton's Exford Estate.
The complex, including the walls is of local historical significance as representing the way of life of a small farmer before the First Word War. It is also of architectural significance as a relatively intact Edwardian farmhouse with some contextual elements including outbuildings and drystone walls. These walls significantly demonstrate the techniques of the stonewaller's trade.
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"Nerowie" Outbuildings (Buckler's Farm) - Physical Conditions
Fair
"Nerowie" Outbuildings (Buckler's Farm) - Intactness
Very good
"Nerowie" Outbuildings (Buckler's Farm) - Physical Description 1
House. A red brick Edwardian house with a T-shaped plan.
The gable-ends have finials and cross-bars. There is a skillion verandah around on three sides. Chimneys are bi-chromatic brick. Two large outbuildings and a wooden pavilion appear to be a similar date, with corrugated iron cladding, timber latticework and finials.
Bucklers Road is lined with a drystone wall for 200 metres and a further 200 metres of post and wire fence with a drystone base, one side only. The outbuildings are in Bacchus Marsh Shire, but the drystone walls and house are in Werribee Shire.
Wall. The substantial dry stone wall stands 1.2 metres high and demonstrates the considerable skill of the waller. Through stones are evenly placed about one third up the wall and coping is regular. The main stones are unevenly coursed, but carefully placed with extensive plugging. The wall evidently originally extended all the way to the Rowsley Exford Road, forming one side of the entrance drive to the present Buckler's farm property. 21,322 acres (8,629 ha).
"Nerowie" Outbuildings (Buckler's Farm) - Physical Description 2
Wall. The substantial dry stone wall stands 1.2 metres high and demonstrates the considerable skill of the waller. Through stones are evenly placed about one third up the wall and coping is regular. The main stones are unevenly coursed, but carefully placed with extensive plugging. The wall evidently originally extended all the way to the Rowsley Exford Road, forming one side of the entrance drive to the present Buckler's farm property. 21,322 acres (8,629 ha).
"Nerowie" Outbuildings (Buckler's Farm) - Historical Australian Themes
Agricultural?
Heritage Study and Grading
Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
Year: 1995
Grading:
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HO98 - House 'Nerowie'Melton City
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"Nerowie" Outbuildings (Buckler's Farm)Moorabool Shire
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