STANMORE HOMESTEAD
Harrow-Balmoral Road, BALMORAL VIC 3407 - Property No 0519
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Statement of Significance
Stanmore is a large single storey rendered brick house, with an attached verandah on three sides. The house was built in about 1865, using a simple version of the Italianate style. The house has suffered from periods of neglect, and has lost some of its original fabric. However, some important remnants of the original interior decoration survive. It has been extended and altered internally during the 20th century. The house has been sited on a rise overlooking Mathers Creek, with a view to the nearby town of Balmoral. The garden is a modern design.
How is it significant?
Stanmore is of historical and architectural significance to the township of Balmoral and the Southern Grampians Shire.
Why is it significant?
Stanmore is of historical significance for its association with important pioneering families of the area, in particular the Robertsons, McConochies, and Lyons, and for its long period of ownership by the Balmoral Presbyterian Church. Stanmore is of architectural significance as an example of a large mid-Victorian house, likely to have been designed by an architect, with reference to the Italianate style.
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STANMORE HOMESTEAD - Physical Conditions
The house is in good condition.
STANMORE HOMESTEAD - Physical Description 1
Stanmore is a large, single storey, symmetrical, rendered brick house, built in a simple version of the Italianate style. It has a verandah, much altered, on three sides. The roof is low pitched, with shallow, undecorated eaves, and is covered in corrugated iron. The house has been extended at the rear and altered internally. There are important vestiges of the interior decoration including original graining and wallpapers. The garden appears to date from the 1960s.
STANMORE HOMESTEAD - Historical Australian Themes
Theme 4: Building settlements, towns and cities
4.5 Making settlements to serve rural Australia
Theme 8: Developing Australia's cultural life
8.12 Living in and around Australian homes
8.14 Living in the country and rural settlementsSTANMORE HOMESTEAD - Usage/Former Usage
residential
STANMORE HOMESTEAD - Integrity
High degree of interity externally. Interiors have lost some of their original decoration although some graining may survive and wallpapers have been painted over. Plan has been altered by the demolition of some internal walls.
STANMORE HOMESTEAD - Physical Description 2
Mary Robertson, nee McConochie, first owner
John George Robertson, squatter and botanist, husband of the first owner
Basil McConochie Lyon , merchant, first post master in Balmoral, later ownerHeritage Study and Grading
Southern Grampians - Southern Grampians Shire Heritage Study
Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, Annabel Neylon
Year: 2002
Grading:
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BALMORAL SHOWGROUNDS AND OVALSouthern Grampians Shire
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STANMORE HOMESTEADSouthern Grampians Shire
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'CARINYA' LADSONS STOREVictorian Heritage Register H0568
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