Dwelling "Millside"
90 Mount Blackwood Road MYRNIONG, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Farm Complex at 90 Mt Blackwood Road, Myrniong.
How is it significant?
The Farm Complex at 90 Mt Blackwood Road, Myrniong is of local historical and architectural significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The Farm Complex at 90 Mt Blackwood Road, Myrniong is of historical for its demonstration of the continuing settlement of the Myrniong area for agricultural purposes into the 1920s. With the retention of a number of outbuildings and structures dating from the 1920s to the 1950s, the property is of historical significance for demonstrating the workings of a farm in the period from the 1920s into the mid 20th century.
The Farm Complex at 90 Mt Blackwood Road, Myrniong is of aesthetic significance as an intact farm property from the 1920s with various contextual surviving elements including pine windbreaks, corrugated iron clad farm buildings, and fences (including with drystone base). The farmhouse is of aesthetic significance as a characteristic owner built timber farmhouse with Edwardian features, even though it was built in the 1920s.
1995
A particularly intact characteristic timber Edwardian farmhouse, with various contextual surviving elements including: pine windbreaks and fences (including with drystone base). Tills is of local historical significance as a representative embodiment of an agricultural way of life before the First World War. It is architecturally significant as a representative Edwardian farmhouse.
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Dwelling "Millside" - Physical Conditions
Good
Dwelling "Millside" - Intactness
Very Good
SIGNIFICANT INTACT ELEMENTS:
FACADE. VERANDAH.
VERANDAH DECORATION.
CHIMNEYS. WALL DECORATION.
OUTBUILDING.
GATESIWALLSfHEDGES.
VIEWS. To west TREES. PLANTUiG FORMATION.
Dwelling "Millside" - Physical Description 1
A double-fronted timber Edwardian farmhouse. The left hand bay is set forward as a gable, with a bull-nosed timber verandah in the angle, returning on the right hand side.This has fretwork decorative brackets under a rail valance and Doric posts. The house has exposed rafters and asWartimber boards to the front.
There are a number of contextual elements. There is a late nineteenth century timber outbuilding at right. This is separated from the house by a hedge. The front boundary has a row of pines, there is an arbor at the pedestrian woven wire gate (there is a similar gate in the hedge) in a corrugated iron fence, and there is also a hand-forged metal gate. On the front boundary of the paddock at left, in front of the pines, is a split post and wire fence on a rubble drystone base, with three drops between posts. This extends from Moos Lane on both sides of Mt Blackwood Road, northwards. The best section is north-east of the property of J.E. Gan. There is an extensive view westwards over rolling paddocks with pine windbreaks of the Myruiong Creek valley.
Dwelling "Millside" - Physical Description 2
Landscape. The windbreaks subdividing the various paddocks and yards of this property are a combination of Pinus radiata (Monterey Pine) and Cupressus macrocarpa (Monterey Pine). The majority of the trees are in good condition 'With some dead branches on the pines which will require pruning. They form a good screen to the property and would provide shelter in a reasonably exposed area. The cypresses are not as large as similar specimens within the district, but this may be due to localised soil and climatic conditions within the property.
Dwelling "Millside" - Historical Australian Themes
Agricultural
Heritage Study and Grading
Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
Year: 1995
Grading:
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Pentland Hills Uniting ChurchMoorabool Shire
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Dwelling "Millside"Moorabool Shire
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