Stone Villa
4 Bennett Street BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
An early Picturesque Gothic ashlar stone house, possibly derived from a pattern-book design, built in 1865 by James Young. Young established the Border Flour Mill, the Border Store and served in various public positions.
The house is locally significant historically as a representative embodiment of a way of life in the mid-1860s and demonstrates its association with important and influential local figure James Young. It is also significant as an early local substantial house.
It is of local architectural significance as a rare (purported) example of the influence of pattern-book designs, and as an intact representative example of the Picturesque Gothic style.
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Stone Villa - Physical Conditions
Fair only. There is very serious vertical structural cracking. The side walls appear to be rotating.
Stone Villa - Intactness
Very good. The stonework has been painted: Three coats are visible. The rear verandah has been removed.
Stone Villa - Physical Description 1
A Picturesque Gothic limestone ashlar house, its design possibly derived from pattern books. It has a gable roof across, is double fronted and symmetrical, with two canted bay windows and parapets flanking a gable-roofed entrance porch. These bays are hard on the front boundary line. They have deep ovolu moulds, a frieze-mould and in the window soffits, prismatic panels.
The gables and the porch have fine, loopy decorative barges, slot vent and finial. There is a Jacobean label-mould over the four-centred arched entrance and a carved motif: two wreaths inscribing a four-petal flower over a ribbon. The recessed four-panel door has fanlight and sidelights. Other windows have flat architraves and cills. There are rock-face quoins. Dual parallel gables and a verandah project at rear. There is a diamond pattern precast concrete foorpath.
Stone Villa - Historical Australian Themes
Townships
Stone Villa - Usage/Former Usage
USE: House
PREVIOUS USE: Parsonage.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
Year: 1995
Grading:
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0503
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BACCHUS MARSH EXPRESS OFFICE AND PRINTING WORKSVictorian Heritage Register H0504
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FORMER CHRISTOPHER CRISP RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0505
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