Mills Farm House
30 MURRAY DRIVE WATTLE GLEN, NILLUMBIK SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
ELTHAM STUDY STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:
Examples of this standard design late Victorian and Edwardian timber dwelling are very rare anywhere in the Shire, due to the district's lack of affluence and relative remoteness right up until the mid 20th century. Presumably this house was built to serve a farm or orchard and its siting in the Water Gully Creek valley reflects the late 19th and early 20th century pattern of settlement for agriculture along the fertile valleys of the Diamond Creek and its tributaries.REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE (with AHC-criteria)
Mills farm house is significant to Wattle Glen:
- as an example of a late Victorian era timber farm house, in a typical Melbourne suburban style, but rare within the locality (Criterion B2);
- for its historical links with the Mills family and early gold diggings which are nearby in Watery Gully (Criterion A4);
- for its expression of farming and orcharding in the district, its siting in the Watery Gully Creek valley reflecting the late 19th and early 20th century pattern of settlement for agriculture along the fertile valleys of the Diamond Creek and its tributaries (Criterion A4).
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Mills Farm House - Physical Description 1
ELTHAM STUDY DESCRIPTON:
Style late Victorian.
Design standard;
Plan rectangular.
Single storied.
Walls timber stud construction, weatherboard clad.Roof hipped with shallow eaves, corrugated iron clad. Features are the size of the building, its symmetrical front facade, verandah, paired front facade eaves brackets, chimneys and the sloping ground rising to the front of the house.
REVISED OR EXTENDED DESCRIPTON:
Other elements include the block or simulated ashlar pattern boards to the front, the cement cappings to the red brick chimneys, and the M-profile hipped roof.
Mills Farm House - Physical Conditions
Externally fair (disturbed, reasonably preserved)
Mills Farm House - Integrity
Externally substantially intact/some intrusions, the verandah detail has gone.
Mills Farm House - Historical Australian Themes
FARMING
Heritage Study and Grading
Nillumbik - Nillumbik Shire Heritage Study 2001
Author: Graeme Butler & Assoc
Year: 2001
Grading:
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Wattle Glen railway 50hz electricity substationNillumbik Shire
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