DORFSTEDT
2785 MAIN SOUTH ROAD, POOWONG, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
Transitional Homestead - The homestead is of timber construction with large, ridged gip with two projecting hips at the rear. There is another off-centre gable to the West of the property. There is a straight roofed return verandah supported by simple square posts. The windows are single double hung windows with other exterior decorations including a shingle board dado and one chimney with rendered moulding and terracotta pots. Internal panelling on walls and ceilings are made of Californian Redwood and Kauri timber. Other decorations include dado panel friezes and ceiling coves.
Milking Shed/Large Barn – This is a symmetrical gable weatherboard structure with central aisle with loft, supported by hewn timber. The milking bays are set along the aisles with very low side eaves. The milking shed includes a stud frame, central end doors ledged and braced vertical boards, and small gable end door.
Buggy House and groom room – Positioned north of the open area, the Buggy House is a gabled structure, with a straight verandah partially covered by the south entry. The western end of the building contains the groom’s room with a simple corbelled chimney, the harness room is in the centre of the building, and the buggy room is at the eastern end of the house. An early wagon is housed at the rear of this building.
Workshop/Smokehouse – The workshop is to the north of the house, in line with the buggy house to the east, with a gable roof and iron roof. These is an old dray and imported German farm wagon housed in this building.
Non-original alterations and addition are not significant.
Dorfstedt has been owned by the same family, the Staben's, continuously since its construction in 1898. Henning Staben built the property in that year after selecting an area of 320 acres in 1877, twenty years after arriving in Victoria. Dorfstedt is one of only a handful of properties in South Gippsland have is still occupied by the same family as the original selector. (Criterion H)
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DORFSTEDT - Physical Description 1
The farm complex at "Dorfstedt", Drouin- Korumburra Road, Poowong comprises a transitional dwelling, a large barn/milking shed, a buggy house with groom's room and a workshop/smokehouse; set around three sides of an open area. Various later additions are attached to the sides of the buggy house and smokehouse.
The dwelling is of single storey timber construction with corrugated iron roofs. It is based on a large ridged hip with two hips projecting to the rear and an off centre gable projecting to the front (facing the open area to the west). The house has a straight roofed return verandah with simple square posts on the open sides. The fourth side separates a single gable kitchen building at the south by a conservatory/breezeway (now built in). Gable end decoration shown on the early sketch is now missing and the exterior, apart from single double hung windows and shingle board dado to the projecting bay, is very plain. There is one chimney with a rendered moulded cap and terra cotta pots.
The interiors to the living room and passage have remarkable panelling to both the walls and ceilings in what is believed to be Californian redwood and kauri, including dado panel frieze, ceiling coves, cupboards and central rose. There are also coat racks with original animal horn.
The barn/milking shed is a symmetrical gable weatherboard structure with a central aisle with a loft over, carried on hewn timbers and with milking bays in the aisles, which are contained under the very low side eaves. The end and side walls are of stud frame. The main central end doors (one of which remains) are ledged and braced vertical boards. A small loft door is contained in the gable peak and there are pass doors at either side.
The buggy house is to the north of the open area and is a gabled structure sheeted in vertical galvanised iron with a straight verandah partially covering the south (entry) side. The full original extent of this is uncertain. At the east end is the groom's/workers room with a simple brick corbelled chimney. The harness room is in the centre and the buggy house at the other end. At the back of this structure is a later extension in which a very early covered wagon is stored. Also stored within this building are family records and ephemera including diaries recording daily life on the farm from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
Located to the north of the house in line with the east side of the buggy house is the smokehouse/workshop, which is also a corrugated iron structure with a gable roof. The interpretation of its detail requires further study. At its rear are later sheds containing an old dray and what is understood to bethe originalimported German farm wagon used by Henning Staben to come to Poowong.The complex is accessed by a more recent driveway from the north. The original carriage drive to the south is marked by several remnant trees including pines.
DORFSTEDT - Physical Conditions
Non-Aboriginal Historic Site Gazetter HSG 61
Heritage Study and Grading
South Gippsland - South Gippsland Heritage Study
Author: David Helms with Trevor Westmore
Year: 2004
Grading:
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