READ FARM COMPLEX (FORMER)
404 Yarra Road (former 9057), and 6 Toppings Road WONGA PARK, Manningham City
Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The former Read farm complex comprises the house constructed in stages from 1902 as well as the adjacent corrugated iron clad shed (thought to have been used for fruit handling) and associated mature trees, situated at 404 Yarra Road and 6 Toppings Road (part), Wonga Park.
How is it Significant?
The Read farm complex (former) is of historic significance to Manningham City.
Why is it Significant?
The Read farm complex has historic significance as a representative and now rare example of the small farm operations that were established in Wonga Park in the early part of the twentieth century. It has associations with Heber Newton Read, pioneer district farmer and orchardist, and the Read family maintained ownership for many years. The surviving elements of the property and its layout including the house, associated sheds and mature trees are typical of small farms of the period and illustrate how the area appeared prior to post-war suburban development. (RNE criteria A4, B2, D2, H1)
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COOLIBAH
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BARAK'S BIRTHPLACE
Manningham City
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WONGA PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 3241 AND RESIDENCE
Manningham City
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21/04/20
I understood from Herb Read, that the old farm shed shown in the photos on this site, was a building he purchased and re-erected in this location in Toppings Road. It was bought from a farm which was flooded by the Eildon dam. It may have been used more fully in orcharding earlier, by the time I knew it in the 70's - 90's it was used for grading lemons for market and storage of hay etc. The cattle sheds were used for his prize Murray Grey Stud Cattle.
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Notes See all notes
21/04/20
I understood from Herb Read, that the old farm shed shown in the photos on this site, was a building he purchased and re-erected in this location in Toppings Road. It was bought from a farm which was flooded by the Eildon dam. It may have been used more fully in orcharding earlier, by the time I knew it in the 70's - 90's it was used for grading lemons for market and storage of hay etc. The cattle sheds were used for his prize Murray Grey Stud Cattle.
