St Patrick's House Broadlands Estate.
437 Bacchus Marsh Road (Avenue of Honour) BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Residence and its setting at Ryans Road, Bacchus Marsh.
How is it significant?
The Residence and its setting at Ryans Road, Bacchus Marsh is of local historical and architectural significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The Residence and its setting at Ryans Road, Bacchus Marsh is of local historical significance for its demonstration of the early development of the Bacchus Marsh Township. The dwelling is a rare surviving example of a farmhouse from the 1860s period. Survival of intact buildings from this era is rare across Victoria. The property is of historical significance for its potential to yield information about the early development of Bacchus Marsh from the archaeological remains of the Church of England Denominational School and the National School 28 contained within the site.
The Residence and its setting at Ryans Road, Bacchus Marsh is of aesthetic significance as a rare surviving example of a mid-Victorian brick farmhouse. The residence demonstrates key features of an early brick farmhouse including its simple form, main gable roof with three chimneys, verandah across the front, and slate roof.
1995
An early, unpretentious brick farmhouse, built in 1864, with a 1920s Bungalow front. It is of local historical significance as a representative embodiment of an agricultural way of life in the 1860s. It demonstrates as association with Henry 'Money" Miller and earlier, Jeremiah Ryan. Further, it demonstrates a sequence of architectural styles.
It is of local architectural significance as a representative (although unique in form) example of an early farmhouse. The sites of the early buildings are of scientific significance for its archaeological research potential.
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St Patrick's House Broadlands Estate. - Physical Conditions
Not accessible.
St Patrick's House Broadlands Estate. - Intactness
Not accessible.
SIGNIFICANT INTACT ELEMENTS
FORM. FACADE. VERANDAH. ROO F FORM. USE-VERANDAH DEC. CHlMNEYS. DOORS.
WINDOWS.
St Patrick's House Broadlands Estate. - Physical Description 1
l73A. St Patrick's House. Not inspected. (Private property. Only visible in distance).
From photographs, the house appears to be a six-bay gable-roofed brick house facing the drive with parapets at each gable-end. This is slate-roofed, with three chimneys with terra-cotta pots on the ridge. It is in the form of a semi-detached pair of cottages, each symmetrical around its entry the lintels are decorated with two carved stone bas-reliefs of a male head. To this has now been added two projecting minor gables with a skillion roof between and beyond at each end, in the Bungalow style of the 1920s. This is supported on square section concrete Tuscan columns on brick plinths with very shallow-arched transoms. There are various garden remnants.
Note (refer separately):
173B. Former Bacchus Marsh Church of England (non-vested) Denominational School "Iron School" No 53 (site). Erected December 1855. Closed 1864.2 Confirmed demolished.
173C.Former Bacchus Marsh National School No 28 (1851. Closed 1855).3 (site). One post set into the ground survives, on the south-east corner of the Lerderderg River bridge (between the river and the Avenue of Honour).
2 L.J. Blake, Vision & Realisation. A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria. Education Department of Victoria, Melbourne 1973, vol.J , p.13.
3 Ibid, p.15
St Patrick's House Broadlands Estate. - Historical Australian Themes
Agriculture
St Patrick's House Broadlands Estate. - Usage/Former Usage
USE : Farm manager's residence
PREVIOUS USE: Farmhouse
Heritage Study and Grading
Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
Year: 1995
Grading:
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AVENUE OF HONOURVictorian Heritage Register H2238
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House, 375 Bacchus Marsh Road (Avenue of Honour)Moorabool Shire
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"Riverton" Lot 2 TP328565 Lerderderg StreetMoorabool Shire
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