Wellington Park
17 Highfield Avenue WARRANWOOD, MAROONDAH CITY
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Statement of Significance
Wellington Park (formerly Woorara) is late Victorian brick farmhouse built in 1889, but reconstructed after destruction in the 1939 bushfire. it is historically significant as marking the first freehold land in Croydon, being a Pre-emptive right Crown grant of two allocations of 320 acres (260 hectares total) in 1854. The building is significant as an early surviving farmhouse. It is also historically significant in demonstrating locally the effect of the bushfire, one of the greatest natural disasters in Australia's history. It also has some architectural significance locally as a surviving remnant of a late Victorian farmhouse.
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Wellington Park - Physical Description 1
Sited on the highest point in the district, a large, single-storey brick, apparently formerly Italianate house, with a nest of hipped roofs, clad with unglazed Marseiles terra-cotta tiles. It has massive chimneys with pairs of unglazed terra-cotta pots, deep corbelled caps and cruciform relief decoration.
Wellington Park - Intactness
Recently the entrance has been replaced with mock Victorian
Heritage Study and Grading
Maroondah - Maroondah Heritage Identification Study
Author: Richard Peterson with Peter Barrett
Year: 1998
Grading:
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Melbourne Rudolf Steiner SchoolMaroondah City
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