Dwelling "Girraween"
45 Main Road MYRNIONG, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Residence at 45 Main Street, Myrniong.
How is it significant?
The Residence at 45 Main Street, Myrniong is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The Residence at 45 Main Street, Myrniong is of local historical significance for its demonstration of the establishment of the Myrniong Township in the 1860s. Constructed in 1867 for a blacksmith and wheelwright, the building is a rare surviving example of an 1860s bluestone residence demonstrating the way of life in mid 19th century Victoria. The residence is of historical significance as one of a collection of bluestone buildings dating from the 1860s and 1870s demonstrating the constituents and appearance of an early Victorian rural township.
The Residence at 45 Main Street, Myrniong is of aesthetic significance as a rare surviving example of a bluestone dwelling from the 1860s. The building demonstrates key features of a mid 19th century bluestone dwelling, including the hipped roof, symmetrical design, tuckpointed bluestone ashlar with dressed quoins, verandah across the front extending from the main roofline, two symmetrically placed chimneys, and four panel front timber door.
1995
A bluestone ashlar early house, built for a blacksmith and wheelwright in 1867. It is oflocal historical significance as the representative embodiment of a way of life associated with a trade 130 years ago and an early pioneering building in this locality. It is also of architectural significance as a relatively intact early surviving tradesman's house of stone .
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Dwelling "Girraween" - Physical Description 1
A double-fronted, symmetrical stone house with a hip-roof Walls are bluestone ashlar, tuckpointed with dressed quoins. The verandah extends from the main roof at break-pitch. There are two symmetrical chimneys and a four-panel door.
In front is a chain-link pedestrian gate, in a metal ribbon woven wire fence, and an arbour.
It faces views north to the rolling hills and windbreak rows of pines on the fence lines, visible through the double avenue of trees along Main Street.
Dwelling "Girraween" - Historical Australian Themes
Townships
Dwelling "Girraween" - Intactness
Very good. The door panels are now glazed and the quoins painted.
SIGNIFICANT INTACT ELEMENTS:
MATERIALS. FACADE. VERANDAH.
CIDMNEYS. DOORS. WINDOWS.
UNPAINTED FINISH. GARDEN STRUCTURE.
GATE.
VIEWS.
Dwelling "Girraween" - Physical Conditions
CONDITIONS & THREATS: Very good.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
Year: 1995
Grading:
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