FOSTERVILLE MUD BRICK HOUSE
EPSOM-WELLSFORD ROAD FOSTERVILLE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
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FOSTERVILLE MUD BRICK HOUSE - History
Gold was discovered at Ellesmere (Fosterville) in 1852 but the place did not really become established until the reefing field was opened in the mid-1890s. The 18-acre block of land on which the houseswere built had three houses - those of Ewan Stewart, Thomas Adams, and Ewan's brother-in-law Alex McDonald. The Stewarts were heavily involved in mining at Fosterville.
[The small house] was built in the 1890s(?) by Ewan Stewart, an early Fosterville miner. It was a 4-room cottage with a cottage mud-brick wash-house and a cellar several away to the north-east. During the 1930s, a sleep-out attached to the house was used by the Stewart family. It contained three beds. Allan Stewart, who supplied most of the historical information present here [report], lived with his family in this house from 1929 to 1939 when he moved to Melbourne. His parents left the house in 1942 moving to Bendigo.
FOSTERVILLE MUD BRICK HOUSE - Interpretation of Site
Domestic dwelling
Heritage Inventory Description
FOSTERVILLE MUD BRICK HOUSE - Heritage Inventory Description
Mudbrick walls and stone base of Ewen Stewars dwelling.
The small house ruin is of mud-brick construction with a stone base and only the parts of three external walls survive. The south-west is 8 metres long, buttressed by two small short wall sections extending out 1.5 metres. Piles of broken and intact bricks lie inside the building where the wall sections have collapsed. To the north-east of the house a pit has been dug (former cellar position) and a scatter of artefacts including an iron bucket, broken crockery and scrap iron has been laid out on the ground nearby.
Physical Conditions: The small house ruin is in relatively poor condition and recent collapses of wall sections have occurred. The principal threat to the small house ruin is environmental due to continued attack through rain, heat, and cold on the mad matrix of the walls.
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FOSTERVILLE MUD BRICK HOUSEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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MCCORMICK'S ROAD REFUSE DUMP, FOSERVILLEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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