TULSE HILL
Carapook Road, CARAPOOK VIC 3312 - Property No 115
-
Add to tour
You must log in to do that.
-
Share
-
Shortlist place
You must log in to do that.
- Download report
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
Tulse Hill is a homestead complex located on the Carapook Road, near the small settlement of Carapook, 15kms northwest of Coleraine. The complex includes the house and garden, mature trees and several later timber outbuildings. As a separate homestead, Tulse Hill effectively dates from its purchase in 1871 by the pioneering squatter, William Corney. The first house was built soon after, at a separate location but has since been demolished. The new house was built in 1910 which seems to be the date of the planning of the surrounding garden. The names of the designers, if there were professional designers, is not known. The house is in the Federation Queen Anne style, typical of the period. Its forms, planning, materials and details are each typical. It is large and rambling, the whole creating a deliberately picturesque effect, complementing the garden. The house and garden are sited above the Wennincott Creek to take advantage of the views into and across the steep valley. Both house and garden are significantly intact and are in very good condition.
How is it significant?
Tulse Hill is of historical and architectural significance to the Shire of Southern Grampians.
Why is it significant?
Tulse Hill is of historical significance as a representative homestead and garden from the Edwardian period and as the home
of one of the pioneering families of the Western District still in the original ownership. It is of architectural
significance as an intact representative example of the integrated house and garden design typical of the period.
-
-
TULSE HILL - Physical Conditions
The house is in very good condition and is significantly intact. The garden is also in good condition and intact.
TULSE HILL - Physical Description 1
Tulse Hill Homestead is a large Federation style house of eighteen rooms set in a mature garden dating from the same period. The single storey, brick house is typical of the style with an asymmetrical plan, an emphasis on the diagonal, and a picturesque and dominating roof. The roof is corrugated iron and the bricks are said to have been hand made on the property. A distinctive turret reinforces the corner bay window of the drawing room and tall chimneys contrast with the spreading roof forms. There is a timber verandah on two sides, terminating on the left at a projecting wing with a large bay window and an elaborate gable. This marks the dining room. On the other side of this wing there is a conservatory. The main windows include coloured glass typical of the period. Further gables mark other functions within the house. An extensive service wing at the rear completes the house, which includes two small cellars under the storerooms. The house is sited on a rise overlooking the steep Wenicott Creek valley and is sited deliberately to take advantage of the view. The garden is about .2ha and is comprised of a curving drive, extensive laws and shrubberies. Overarching cypresses, Cupressus macrocarpa, cover the gravel drive. A Canary Island Palm (Phoenix caneriensis), one of several in the garden, dominates the main lawn. Other trees include pines, oaks, elms and birches.
TULSE HILL - Historical Australian Themes
Theme 3: Developing local, regional and national economies
3.5 Developing primary production
3.5.1 Grazing stock
Theme 5: Working
5.8 Working on the land
TULSE HILL - Usage/Former Usage
Continuing as a pastoral property
TULSE HILL - Integrity
Very intact with high degree of integrity
TULSE HILL - Physical Description 2
Corney Family
TULSE HILL - Physical Description 3
Section 15
Heritage Study and Grading
Southern Grampians - Southern Grampians Shire Heritage Study
Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, Annabel Neylon
Year: 2002
Grading:
-
-
-
-
-
TULSE HILLSouthern Grampians Shire
-
"1890"Yarra City
-
"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
-
"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
-
'NORWAY'Boroondara City
-
1 Mitchell StreetYarra City
-
-