Warranooke Homestead, 2272 Glenorchy Road, Marnoo West
2272 Glenorchy Road MARNOO WEST, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The Warranooke homestead complex,Marnoo Westhas significance has a partly intact example of a farm complex with Victorian vernacular styled buildings and buildings from the early twentieth century. Developed from the 1840s, the buildings date from the 19th century and early twentieth century, the complex reflects the farming developments of that era.
The Warranooke homestead complex, Marnoo West is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although altered and the main twentieth century house destroyed by fire, the earlier homestead and outbuildings demonstrates design qualities of a vernacular Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped and gable roof forms. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the weatherboard, rendered and face brick wall construction, chimneys, and the timber framed windows.
The Warranooke homestead complex, Marnoo West is historically significant at a LOCAL level. Warranooke was originally settled in 1844 and has been in the ownership of the Ayrey/Campbell family since inception.
Overall, Warranooke homestead complex, Marnoo West is of LOCAL significance.
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Warranooke Homestead, 2272 Glenorchy Road, Marnoo West - Physical Description 1
The impressive interwar two storey main house built at Warranooke during the Frances and Clive Campbells occupation is now a skeleton of brick walls and chimneys set in a remnant garden. This has been abandoned since the fire in 1975.
Other buildings survive on both Warranooke and Warranooke North from the Ayrey and the Campbell occupation of the property. These include the single storey earlier house which has a hipped and gabled roof forms, with one hip is clad in Morrows and Rogers galvanised steel roofing tiles, now part covered in corrugated galvanised steel sheeting. The use of these tiles appears to indicated that the house was constructed in the 1850s. The building has a shallow straight pitched return verandah supported on large square timber posts. The roof of the verandah is clad in corrugated steel. The walls are clad in square edged weatherboards. There are timber framed windows, some larger one appear introduced in the late twentieth century.
Near the single storey homestead is a large brick stables buildings. The stables has a single gable roof with two gable roofed timber louvered ventilators rising from the ridge line. The roof is clad in corrugated steel. The gable ends have a had the barge boards capped in galvanised steel. The walls are of a soft orange brick with the arched openings marked by a rendered band. The base of the walls has also been rendered probably to cover the damage caused by rising damp and salt attack which is evident in the walls. There is a central arched opening with timber louvres in the semicircular transom area with a vertically boarded stable door below. On either side is an arched recess with the arch outlined in render with a rendered keystone to match the central entry. In the apex of the gable if a bulls eye opening with timber louvres. This is outlined in render with four keystone shapes as decoration. The arched windows openings continue down the side wall of the building. These are also marked by rendered arch heads, keystones and sills and linked by a render band. There is a brick chimney at one end.
Nearby is a similar but smaller building which appears to have been a storehouse. This has a gable roof clad in lapped corrugated steel. The gable barge boards have been clad in galvanised steel. The walls have been rendered with the render marked out as ashlar blocks. There is an arch headed opening in one gable ends with a four panelled door with the panel frames stop chamfered and diagonal boarding in the panels. Above this in the gable and also at the other gable end in a simple round opening with timber louvres. This is outlined with a raised render band. Along one long side is a central arched doorway with timber door. Flanking the door is a pair of arched headed windows. All the openings have a raised render band outlining the arch and joined at the arch springing height by a horizontal render band which encircles the building. There are rendered sills to the openings.
Another outbuilding appears to have been constructed in the interwar period with similar materials and roof forms to the main house (now destroyed by fire). This is a single storey building with steeply pitched hipped, almost pyramidal, roof forms clad in unglazed terracotta shingles with shingled hips. The walls are of plain unpainted render. There are timber framed windows and doors.
Heritage Study and Grading
Northern Grampians - Shire of Northern Grampians - Stage 2 Heritage Study
Author: Wendy Jacobs, Vicki Johnson, David Rowe, Phil Taylor
Year: 2004
Grading: Local
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Warranooke Homestead, 2272 Glenorchy Road, Marnoo WestNorthern Grampians Shire
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