BALMORAL COURT HOUSE

35 GLENDINNING STREET BALMORAL, Southern Grampians Shire

The Balmoral Court house was designed by Alfred T Snow and built by the Public Works Department in 1876. It is a weatherboard building with a gabled roof of corrugated galvanized iron and…

BANNOCKBURN RAILWAY STATION

CLYDE ROAD BANNOCKBURN, Golden Plains Shire

The Bannockburn Railway Station was constructed for the Victorian Railways in 1862 by DM Barry, on the Geelong-Ballarat Line. It comprises a single storeyed station building with a two…

THE HERMITAGE

2132 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY BARNAWARTHA, INDIGO SHIRE

The Hermitage, Barnawatha, was built by David Reid (1820-1906), one of the first settlers in the Ovens district. He married Mary Barber, a niece of Hamilton Hume, who with William Hovell…

FORMER TRAVELLERS REST INN

750 MIDLAND HIGHWAY BATESFORD, GREATER GEELONG CITY

The former Travellers Rest Inn was erected in 1849 for licencee John Primrose. This rectangular plan Colonial Georgian structure of rendered rubble granite was converted to a residence in…

LAURENCE PARK HOMESTEAD

56 BUCHTER ROAD BATESFORD, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

Work on the Laurence Park homestead commenced in 1845 for Dr John Learmonth (1812-1871), the son of the pastoralist Thomas Learmonth (1783 - 1869), following the destruction by fire of an…

MULBERRY HILL

385 GOLF LINKS ROAD LANGWARRIN SOUTH, Frankston City

Mulberry Hill is remembered as the home of Sir Daryl (1889-1976) and Joan Lindsay (d.1984) and as a place frequented by other members of the famous Lindsay family and some of Australia's…

SAGES COTTAGE

85 SAGES ROAD BAXTER, Mornington Peninsula Shire

Sages Cottage including the homestead building, stables, blacksmith's shop, outdoor toilet, the form of the original orchard, and remnant trees and hedges. HOW IS IT SIGNIFICANT? Sages…

BELMONT

643 MAIN LEAD ROAD RAGLAN, Pyrenees Shire

In about 1858, James Frazer Watkin, an English engineer occupied land on a Miner’s Right near the Mount Cole to Mitchell’s Gully water race at Raglan. J. F. Watkin had been involved in…

MAYDAY HILLS HOSPITAL

ALBERT ROAD BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

Mayday Hills Hospital, consisting of a variety of buildings constructed since the establishment of the institution in 1864. The majority of these buildings are contained within a landscape…

NEWTOWN BRIDGE PRECINCT

SPRING CREEK, BRIDGE ROAD BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The Newtown Bridge is a single arch granite bridge built c.1875. The bridge spans over Spring Creek at Beechworth and is 24.8 metres long with a kerb to kerb width of 6.3 metres. The arch…

FORMER BANK OF VICTORIA

29 CAMP STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The Former Bank of Victoria, also known as the Former CBC Bank, including all of the main building, the former servants' quarters at the rear and the rear wall. History Summary During the…

LONDON TAVERN

43 CAMP STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

The London Tavern, including the three brick wings of the former hotel, built in stages in 1859, 1860-61, 1863-64 and 1865-66, and the 1862 brick bath house in the courtyard. History…

FORMER OVENS DISTRICT HOSPITAL

13 CHURCH STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The Former Ovens District Hospital (formerly known as the Old Hospital Ruins), consisting of: the front facade of the former hospital, the remainder of which was demolished in 1940;…

RESIDENCE

26 FINCH STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

The Residence at 26 Finch Street, Beechworth, which includes a complex of mainly timber buildings constructed in the mid-nineteenth century. These include a two-storey cottage with what was…

RESIDENCE

39 FINCH STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

The Residence at 39 Finch Street, Beechworth consisting of a brick house and outbuilding built c1862 and the later kitchen building, now joined to the house, which was added in 1867. History…

BEECHWORTH POST OFFICE

28A CAMP STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The Beechworth Post Office was constructed in 1870, to a design by Peter Kerr, incorporating a tower dating from 1865 and other materials from an earlier post office building on the site. It…

FORMER METHODIST CHURCH

26-30 FORD STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The 1857 former stone church and the 1869 former Sunday school building. History Summary The first Methodist services in Beechworth were held in the open air by a local Methodist miner and…

TANSWELLS COMMERCIAL HOTEL

50 FORD STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

JD Fisher opened the first Commercial Hotel on this site in 1853. It was the first two-storeyed building in the town. Fisher sold the premises to T Tanswell who erected the present two storey…

BEECHWORTH JUSTICE PRECINCT

FORD STREET WILLIAMS STREET HIGH STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

Gold was discovered at Beechworth in 1852 and the township of Beechworth was proclaimed on 1 July 1853. On 23 August 1856 the Municipal District of Beechworth was proclaimed and the first…

CHRIST CHURCH

25-27 FORD STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

Christ Church, Beechworth, including the main church building (the nave completed in 1859, and the tower and chancel completed in 1864, and including the pipe organ) and the c.1855 building…

FORMER BANK OF NSW

87 FORD STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The Bank of New South Wales, Beechworth was built in 1856-7 on a prominent corner in the centre of the town. An agency for this bank had been opened in Beechworth in 1853, and three years…

POWDER MAGAZINE

SKIDMORE ROAD BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The Powder Magazine at Beechworth, including the stone magazine built in 1859 and the surrounding walls built in 1860. History Summary The Powder Magazine at Beechworth was constructed in…

RESIDENCE

10 JOHN STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

The house at 10 John Street was built in stages. In 1862 a miner named R Chant built a 16ft x 12ft calico tent with slab walls on the site. The slab walls were later replaced by…

BEECHWORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1560

JUNCTION ROAD BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The first school at Beechworth was a school opened in the Wesleyan chapel in January 1855. A small Church of England school opened in 1856 later to become Beechworth Grammar School. A new…

BURKE MUSEUM

28 LOCH STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

The first section of the Burke Museum was constructed in Loch Street, Beechworth in 1857 by the Young Men's Association, which had been formed the previous year with the aim of promoting…