HO39 - House & Bullock Track
847-1071 Blackhill Road TOOLERN VALE, Melton Shire
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Statement of Significance
The house at 847-1071 Blackhill Road, Toolern Vale has significance as a predominantly intact example of an interwar homestead Bungalow style. Built in 1928, the house appears to be in good condition. It is set amongst some mature eucalypts and there are numerous farm fixtures, particularly the Sunshine gates and now rare wooden haystack elevator that contribute to the significance of the place. The visual connections to the remaining evidence of the early ford and bullock track at the foot of the hill are of further significance.
The house at 847-1071 Blackhill Road is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level (AHC D.2). It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar homestead Bungalow style. These qualities include the broad, steeply pitched gambrel roof form, together with the minor gable that projects towards the front and the return broken back verandah formed under the main roof. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, elongated face red brick chimney, stop chamfered timber verandah posts, rudimentary solid timber verandah brackets, timber framed double hung windows (arranged singularly and in groups), timber framed doorway and the decorative gable infill (panelling and timber battening). The farm fixtures, notably the Sunshine gates and rare wooden haystack elevator also contribute to the significance of the place.
The house at 847-1071 Blackhill Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level (AHC A4, H1) for its association with the Beaty family, who have been prominent in the rural history of Toolern Vale and the Shire of Melton. Robert Beaty was a third generation member of this family whose establishment of this Dorset sheep stud property 'Kororoit Park' continued the family's pastoral and farming traditions, and the associations of this land with John Beaty, who purchased it in the 1850s.
The surviving evidence of the former bullock track to the Gisborne district is historically significant at a LOCAL level (AHC C.2). It has the potential to contribute to a wider understanding of the history of the Post-Contact occupation of the area.
Overall, the house and evidence of the bullock track, 847-1071 Blackhill Road, is of LOCAL significance.
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HO39 - House & Bullock Track - Physical Description 1
Physical Description -
The house at 847-1071 Blackhill Road, Toolern Vale is set on a large rural, farm site, with open grassed areas, shrubbery and eucalypts surrounding the house garden. Nearby the house are numerous early farm fixtures, including Sunshine gates and a wooden haystack elevator, built locally, and now rare. To the east of the house site is evidence of the early ford and bullock track to the Gisborne district at the foot of the hill.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal timber weatherboard, interwar homestead Bungalow styled house is characterised by a broad, steeply pitched gambrel roof form, together with a minor gable that projects towards the front and a return broken back verandah formed under the main roof. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated steel. An early elongated and face red brick chimney adorns the roofline.
An early feature of the design is the return verandah. It is supported by stop chamfered timber posts and has rudimentary solid timber brackets.
Other early features include the timber framed double hung windows (arranged singularly or in groups), timber framed doorway and the decorative gable infill (panelling and timber battening).
HO39 - House & Bullock Track - Historical Australian Themes
Shire of Melton Historical Themes: 'Pastoral', 'Farming'
HO39 - House & Bullock Track - Physical Conditions
Physical Condition - Good
HO39 - House & Bullock Track - Integrity
Integrity - Substantially intact
Heritage Study and Grading
Melton - Shire of Melton Heritage Study phase 2
Author: David Maloney, David Rowe, Pamela Jellie, Sera Jane Peters
Year: 2007
Grading:
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