FORMER STABLES - WONGA PARK HOMESTEAD
5 Lower Homestead Road WONGA PARK, Manningham City
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Statement of Significance
This building has local significance as a timber structure of 1936 or earlier, used as stables by W.H. Stocks, dairy farmer, who purchased the Wonga Park homestead property at that time, and one of two early stables buildings remaining in Wonga Park that provide evidence of the past importance of horses for farming and commercial purposes in the district. (Criterion B2, H1)
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FORMER STABLES - WONGA PARK HOMESTEAD - Historical Australian Themes
Local Themes
5.01 - Squatters, selectors & small farmer
FORMER STABLES - WONGA PARK HOMESTEAD - Physical Description 1
Former stables building associated with the property on the other side of Lower Homestead Road (where a farmhouse, hawthorn hedge, large River Red Gum remain); now used for storage.
The timber stables building comprises loose boxes, tack and feed rooms. The stables are built in timber, with vertical palings to dado level and horizontal weatherboards above. There is a brick floor remaining in parts of the stables.
FORMER STABLES - WONGA PARK HOMESTEAD - Physical Conditions
Condition Deteriorated
FORMER STABLES - WONGA PARK HOMESTEAD - Integrity
Integrity Altered
FORMER STABLES - WONGA PARK HOMESTEAD - Physical Description 2
Threats Deterioration
FORMER STABLES - WONGA PARK HOMESTEAD - Physical Description 3
Associations
William Henry Stocks
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading: Local
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