Ercildoune
2/660 Hall Road,CRANBOURNE, Casey City
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Statement of Significance
The homestead at Ercildoune, (formerly Hayton Park) constructed c.1888, at 660 Hall Road, Cranbourne.
How is it significant?
The homestead at Ercildoune is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.
Why is it significant?
Historically, it is significant as one of a small number of surviving late nineteenth century farmhouses that has associations with the locally important Hall Family who established a model dairy farm here. It demonstrates the development of the dairying industry in the Cranbourne area during the late nineteenth century. (AHC criteria A4 and D2)
Aesthetically, it is significant as a superior and well-preserved example of a Victorian Italianate villa in a rural setting. (AHC criterion E1)
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Ercildoune - Usage/Former Usage
Residential, farming
Ercildoune - Physical Description 1
'Hayton Park' comprises a complex of farm buildings including the homestead, garage and and two sheds.
The homestead is a double fronted Victorian Italianate weatherboard villa with a hipped corrugated iron main roof and skillion at the rear. The facade, clad with ashlar boards, has a centrally placed panelled door with etched ruby glass side lights and cobalt glass highlights. The convex verandah is supported on round timber posts and has an elaborate cast iron frieze. There is one rendered brick chimney to the front section, and smaller chimneys to the skillion sections at the rear. A small interwar era garage is at the rear of the house.
The homestead is set back some distance from the road at the end of a driveway, placed to one side of the house. There are no notable garden plantings.
There are two corrugated iron clad sheds to the rear of the house. One appears to date from the interwar/post war period, while the other may be earlier or constructed in stages over a period of time.Ercildoune - Physical Conditions
The homestead at 'Hayton Park' is in good condition. The outbuilding immediately behind the house is also in good condition, while the outbuilding to the south west is in fair to poor condition externally.
Ercildoune - Intactness
Moderate to High.
Ercildoune - Historical Australian Themes
Settling & Working the land
Heritage Study and Grading
Casey - Casey Heritage Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2004
Grading: LocalCasey - City of Casey Heritage Study: Cranbourne, Knox
Author: Graeme Butler & Associate
Year: 1998
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