Menenia Park
71 Craig Road,DEVON MEADOWS, Casey City
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Statement of Significance
'Menenia Park'
How is it significant?
'Menenia Park' is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.
Why is it significant?
Menenia Park (house, trees and outbuildings) is of significance to the City for its distinctive combination of a well-preserved two-storey verandahed farm house form and weatherboard cladding, from early this century, together with a number of other historic elements from the 19th century such as the well and earlier house sites. The property is also associated with some of the pioneering landowners of the district, such as Bruce, Foley and William Taylor, and prominent names from other districts such as the Irvine and Crosthwaite families. It once formed part of a property holding thousands of acres and was the setting for some of the district's social events in the form of race meetings.
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Menenia Park - Physical Description 1
Description
This large two storey, verandahed and weatherboarded hipped roof farm house is set on a hill in mature exotics including Monterey pines and cypress, plus outbuildings. The Monterey pines are thought to have been part of a plantation, being in rows, and legend has it that they were planted by convict labour.
The house possesses architectural detailing (slatted verandah balustrade) and roof form (Dutch hip) typical of the Edwardian-era, with potential for an earlier building adjoining on the site (detailed inspection required).
A single storey wing of the house is thought to have been shifted from an earlier houses site where a brick-lined underground tank remains today, near the front gate. This wing is remembered as being lined with ornamental pressed metal sheeting over hessian in the 1930s (15). Another house site is reputedly located nearer to Finsbury Road among sugar gums, along with an old well.
(15) RB1935-6,947Heritage 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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Menenia ParkCasey City
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