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FORMER LEAHY'S RESIDENCE
BACCHUS MARSH ROAD MERRIMU, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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FORMER LEAHY'S RESIDENCE SOHE 2008

1 former leaky's residence millers road bacchus marsh front view of property aug1992

former leaky's residence millers road bacchus marsh rear view

former leaky's residence millers road bacchus marsh side view

former leaky's residence millers road bacchus marsh stables aug1992

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Statement of Significance

Leahy's former residence, constructed initially as a residence and then converted to a hotel to take advantage of the passing trade of the goldfields is able to provide valuable information, and this is of particular significance as a rare example of an extant gold rush hotel. Leahy's former residence is also important because of the likelihood that it is a surviving example of an 1840s building, rare within the state of Victoria. Leahy's former residence is valuable too because it is able to provide a continuum analogous with that of the state, in relation to not only the changing usage of the building, but also its relationship to such as the Irish enclave which existed in the area and the industries such as that of flour and saw milling, and cheese manufacturing, which were located within its vicinity.

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- History
  
  FORMER LEAHY'S RESIDENCE - History
  Associated People:
  
  Permit Exemption Policy
  
  FORMER LEAHY'S RESIDENCE - Permit Exemption Policy
  Note - formerly H7722-0027, see site card in Attachments. Consider potential archaeological values in determining permits.
- H7722-0027
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- HOPETOUN CEMETERY
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H2059
- HOPETOUN CEMETERY AND CHAPEL
  
  Victorian Heritage Inventory
- SYMINGTON'S BREWERY
  
  Victorian Heritage Inventory
- "1890"
  
  Yarra City
- "AMF Officers" Shed
  
  Moorabool Shire
- "AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOL
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H1687
- Archaeological site
  
  Southern Grampians Shire
- Avoca
  
  Stonnington City H0809
- BANYULE
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H0926

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Record Details

Place ID
51
Location
BACCHUS MARSH ROAD MERRIMU, MOORABOOL SHIRE
Municipality
MOORABOOL SHIRE
Heritage Listing
Victorian Heritage Register
Level of significance
Registered
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number
H0907

Heritage Overlay Numbers
HO10
Extent of Registration

AMENDMENT OF REGISTER OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Historic Building No. 907.
Former Leahy's Residence
Millers Road, Bacchus Marsh.
(To the extent of:
1. All the buildings known as former Leahy's Residence, Millers Road, (Hopetoun) Bacchus Marsh, being the house, stables marked B-1, B-2 on Plan 605084K(A), endorsed by the Chairperson, Historic Buildings Council and held by the Director, Historic Building Council.
2. All the land marked L-1 on Plan 605084K(B) and Plan 605084K(C) being the land comprised in Lot 17 of Section 15 in the Parish of Merrimu endorsed by the Chairperson, Historic Buildings Council and held by the Director, Historic Buildings Council.)
[Victoria Government Gazette No. G41 21 October 1992 p.2869]
Year Construction Started
1847
VHR Registration
January 22, 1992
Amendment to Registration
October 21, 1993
Architectural Style
Pre-separation Colonial Georgian 1836-50
Heritage Act Categories
Registered place
Category

Residential buildings (private)

Recreation and Entertainment

Commercial