Farmhouse, "The Gables"
1419 Bacchus Marsh-Balliang Road BALLIANG, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Farmhouse and its setting at 1419 Bacchus Marsh-Balliang Road, Balliang.
How is it significant?
The Farmhouse and its setting at 1419 Bacchus Marsh-Balliang Road, Balliang is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The Farmhouse and its setting at 1419 Bacchus Marsh-Balliang Road, Balliang is of local historical significance for its associations with the early settlement of Balliang and for its demonstration of the Government Closer Settlement Scheme. Balliang was created in 1908 when the Victorian Government acquired 9,838 acres from the pastoralist, S. F. Staughton and subdivided the land for closer settlement. With the farmhouse constructed in 1908, this would have been one of the earliest farms settled as part of the establishment of Balliang and demonstrates the settlement pattern, which ensued from the Closer Settlement Scheme, and the enterprise of small farmers who took up the leases.
The Farmhouse and its setting at 1419 Bacchus Marsh-Balliang Road, Balliang is of aesthetic significance as an intact example of an Edwardian weatherboard farmhouse, having a distinctive double gable roof form facing the road with a verandah across the front.
1995
A timber Edwardian farmhouse built in 1908 on a Closer Settlement Board lease with various outbuildings.
The complex is of local historical significance as evidence of the government action in establishing the Closer Settlement movement, the settlement pattern that ensued and the enterprise of the small farmers who took up the leases.
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Farmhouse, "The Gables" - Physical Description 1
A late Victorian double-fronted symmetrical timber farmhouse whose pair of gables face the road, with a timber skiIlion verandah across. There are turned finials with radiating timbers and rails both ends ofthe gables, tripartite windows, sidelights and fanlights to the entrance. Each gable has an internal chimney.
Farmhouse, "The Gables" - Intactness
Intact Elements: Verandah Roof Form. Roof Decoration. Doors, Windows, Paintwork scheme. Gates. Outbuildings.
Farmhouse, "The Gables" - Historical Australian Themes
Agriculture
Heritage Study and Grading
Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
Year: 1995
Grading:
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