"Wooloomanata", Residence
1580 Bacchus Marsh Road, CORIO VIC 3214 - Property No 284046
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Statement of Significance
A Listed - State Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The pastoral property, 'Wooloomanata', was originally part of the 'Station Peak' run. Frederick William Armytage, sixth son of remarkable Victorian pioneer George Armytage, built the present single storey homestead c 1860-63 from designs possibly prepared by Leonard Terry, the architect recorded as designing the extensive cottages and outbuildings in 1866. The U-plan Italianate style bluestone residence has an intricate encircling iron verandah of unusual design and fabrication. "Wooloomanata" is one of a number of distinctive homesteads developed by the distinguished Armytage family in Victoria in the mid nineteenth century.
References
Henderson, Alexander. "Armytage" in Henderson's Australian Families, Henderson, Melbourne, 1941, pp.302-314 Including illustration of homestead.
Zuzowski, H. "The Works of Leonard Terry", History Research Essay, Department of Architecture, University of Melbourne, 1971. Vol. II, p. 155. Note of Leonard Terry advertising tenders in unrecorded newspaper (possibly the Argus). 13th February 1866 for erection of offices and cottages at "Wooloomanata", near the Duck Ponds Station for F. W. Armytage esq.
National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No. 1097.
Hone, J. Ann, 'Frederick William Armytage' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Pike, Douglas (Ed). Melbourne University Press, 1969. Vol. 3 p. 52.
Wynd, Ian, 'So Fine A Country, A History of Corio Shire', Draft Copy, to be published in late 1980.
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Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
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BACCHUS MARSH ROAD HOUSE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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Corio Primary School No 124Greater Geelong City
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St Francis Xavier's ChurchNational Trust
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