HOPE PARK
11-13 WEIR COURT, KANGAROO FLAT - PROPERTY NUMBER 241957, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
Hope Park, in the cottage orne-style, is also of aesthetic/architectural significance (Criterion E) and an unusual style of dwelling in the Marong and broader municipal context (Criterion B). The picturesque cottage orne-style, introduced in Australia from the 1830s, was generally associated with settlers of Scottish descent, as occurred here. The property demonstrates many of the key characteristics of the cottage orne-style, including an L-shaped plan, steeply pitched roofs, conspicuous gabling and bargeboards, stone or masonry drip-mouldings, prominent chimneys, canted bay windows in the projecting wings, and addressing the site diagonally rather than frontally. The property is additionally prominent in its immediate context, with the high gabled wings making it one of the taller buildings in the surrounding modern suburban development, and visible in views from the roads to the north and west. The mature cypress pines and palm trees, on the north-east and south-west sides of the dwelling respectively, also have a high degree of visibility and enhance the presentation of the property.
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HOPE PARK - Physical Description 1
Hope Park, set in a deep allotment oriented east-west, comprises an original L-shaped stone house setback from the road (Weir Court), with rear additions, outbuildings and mature trees. The house addresses the east.
The L-shaped stone house has a steeply pitched roof clad in Marseilles-pattern tiling and ridge capping, with prominent gables on its front (east) and side (north) elevations, each with a timber soffit and exposed purlins. The roof has two ridges at right angles, the transverse ridge running across the longitudinal ridge to form a large dormer gable on the south side. Chimneys are located over the windows at the extremities of the two ridges. The rear rooms are under a broad mono-pitch roof that slopes back from the main gable group; this may have a membrane cladding, and it has new vents. The front wing has a timber-framed canted bay with half pyramidal tiled roof over and an apron sill, in the east gable and a diagonally angled central entry porch. The north bay is also gabled, with elongated double hung timber sash windows with stone sills, under two unusual pent drip courses of inset stone slabs.
The walls of the dwelling are reputedly 750mm thick,4 in gallet stonework (where large stone blocks are infilled with chip and spall), with some quoin definition at the front wing corners. The gable bargeboards are simple planks, and the random coursed wing chimney, set directly above the canted bay, has rubble stone necking and a roughly bracketed cornice. The house has a square plan terrace filling in its basic L-shape, with an angled entry step. This terrace is built up with a stone wall laid in a random (irregular) pattern. The north gabled wing is coupled to another canted timber bay and a stone-walled rear wing. Modifications to the property include the roof tile cladding, which replaced the original shingle, possibly in the early twentieth century. The shingle-fronted entry porch may be later, and its waisted, arrow-headed finial is unusual. There is a later screen door. The various out buildings are of weatherboard or of corrugated galvanised steel cladding, painted, and the shed and monopitch roofs are all clad in corrugated galvanised steel, mostly painted. The grounds, although significantly reduced and developed, feature a number of plantings including two cypress pines and two tall palms located to the north-east and south-west sides of the dwelling respectively. The property is enclosed by a modern wire mesh fence.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Heritage Policy Citations Review
Author: Lovell Chen P/L
Year: 2011
Grading: Local
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