POPE HOUSE
1790 GRAND RIDGE ROAD, TRIDA, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
Any non-original additions, including the front verandah, rear skillion area and the Interwar and Post-war outbuildings, are not significant.
This property in Trida represents the simple farmhouses built by original selectors across this region. Although this homestead has been altered, the simple form and detailing is characteristic of these early houses which were once very common. This property is also rare and representative for being one of the few houses in the South Gippsland Shire that survived the 1898 bushfires (Criterion D).
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POPE HOUSE - Physical Description 1
The house at Grand Ridge Road, Trida is a double-fronted Victorian timber cottage of characteristic design with a M-hip roof and a symmetrical facade comprising two over two pane double hung sash windows on either side of the front door, which has a toplight. There is one brick chimney.
The house is situated within the side of a hill at the end of a driveway leading from the road and faces toward the southeast. It is set within the remnants of an early garden, which appears to have been once partly enclosed (and protected) by a Bhutan Cypress (Cupressus torulosa) hedge along the front and west sides. Today, remnants of this hedge include a row of eight mature Bhutan Cypresses across the front of the house and several more along the rear part of the west side boundary (The balance of the west side boundary contains trees of a different species, which may be a later replacement).
Visible changes to the house include the construction of a front verandah (it is not known whether this replaced an earlier verandah
Other buildings in the vicinity of the house, which appear to date from the interwar or postwar periods including a gabled timber shed in the rear yard, former milking shed and creamery buildings clad in timber and/or corrugated iron on the hill behind, and a more recent garage adjacent to the end of the entrance driveway.
Heritage Study and Grading
South Gippsland - Amendment C92 Heritage Review
Author: David Helms Heritage Planning
Year: 2014
Grading: LocalSouth Gippsland - South Gippsland Heritage Study
Author: David Helms with Trevor Westmore
Year: 2004
Grading: Local
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