NARADA HOMESTEAD

130 MOUNT ROAD ANAKIE, Greater Geelong City

Narada Homestead at Anakie was built in 1862 for pastoralist John Browne, a notable early settler in the Anakie district. It was designed by the Geelong architect John Young. Joseph Watts…

GREYSTONES

565 GLENMORE ROAD ROWSLEY, MOORABOOL SHIRE

Greystones including the interiors and exteriors of the homestead and other nineteenth-century buildings, homestead garden, parkland setting and other landscape elements. Staff houses…

MILLBANK

37 GRANT STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

William Grant purchased the land in Bacchus Marsh, upon which Millbank is located, in April 1850 from William Easey. Comprising 205 acres, the land ran from the Werribee River to north of…

ELLERSLIE

12 ELLERSLIE COURT BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

The property known as 'Ellerslie' is the remaining house block of a 14ha farm worked from the late 1850s by Robert Langmuir, a Scottish immigrant who resided in Bacchus Marsh from 1855 till…

KONGBOOL

39 KONGBOOL ROAD BALMORAL, Southern Grampians Shire

The Congbool pastoral homestead on the Mathers Creek near Balmoral was first taken up by the Mather brothers in 1842. The original timber slab homestead of double hipped shingle roof,…

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…

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…

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…

EDRINGTON

6 MELVILLE PARK DRIVE BERWICK, CASEY CITY

Edrington was built in 1906-07 for the West Australian pastoralist Samuel P McKay. It was designed by Rodney Alsop in 1906. It is a two-storey red brick example of the English vernacular…

WALLACES HUT

WALLACES TRACK NELSE, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE

Wallaces? hut was built in 1889 and is probably the oldest surviving hut on the high plains of north-east Victoria. It was built in six weeks by Irish immigrant brothers Arthur, William and…

FAIRFIELD

3210 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY RUTHERGLEN, Indigo Shire

George Francis Morris (1834-1910) was one of the greatest of Victoria's nineteenth century vignerons. In 1904 his property, Fairfield,was described as the country's largest vineyard and…

OLIVE HILLS

3221 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY RUTHERGLEN, Indigo Shire

Olive Hills comprises a large country homestead and complex of related farm buildings. The homestead was constructed in 1886 for Hugh Fraser, a Scot who had worked at the Docker's Bontharambo…

FORMER MELVILLES GRAIN STORE

1-17 COLEBROOK STREET BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY

This substantial complex of three bluestone grainstores was erected between 1888 and 1891 for Donald Melville, a prominent local wool and grain merchant and Member of Parliament. In 1911,…

MOSSIFACE HOP KILNS

1144 SWAN REACH ROAD MOSSIFACE, East Gippsland Shire

John Calvert arrived in Melbourne in 1853 from Northumberland. John and his brother William were successful diggers on the Ballarat fields and, after travelling back to England to fetch their…

GLENARA

10 GLENARA DRIVE BULLA, HUME CITY

Glenara, Bulla was settled by pastoralist Walter Clark in 1857. Originally purchasing 485 acres to the north-west of Melbourne, Clark built his estate up to 4079 acres before his death in…

ERCILDOUN

973 ERCILDOUN ROAD ERCILDOUNE, Pyrenees Shire

Brothers Thomas and Somerville Learmonth founded Ercildoun in 1838. The brothers had been part of an unsuccessful exploration mission into the interior of the colony in 1837, and embarked on…

MENINGOORT

520 MENINGOORT ROAD BOOKAAR, Corangamite Shire

'Meningoort was part of a larger squatting run taken up by Scottish immigrants Peter McArthur and Nicholas Cole in 1837. The run was divided in 1842 or 1843 and McArthur took over the…

PURRUMBETE

3551 PRINCES HIGHWAY WEERITE, CORANGAMITE SHIRE

Purrumbete homestead, the former conservatory, the outbuildings, structures and walls, water reticulation system, driveways, garden, orchard, avenues and plantations. History…

JUNCTION LODGE

69 CAMP STREET CARISBROOK, Central Goldfields Shire

A complex of homestead buildings constructed in bluestone c1873 for Henry Chalk, pastoralist. The complex includes house, kitchen, men's quarters, stables, barn and smithy. The ruins of…

RED BRICK BARN

4876 GLENELG HIGHWAY MUNTHAM, Southern Grampians Shire

The Red Brick Barn at Muntham Station is located on one of the oldest established pastoral properties in Victoria. Edward Henty was the first permanent settler in Victoria and Muntham was…

WARROCK

826 WARROCK ROAD WARROCK, Glenelg Shire

Warrock including the land, all buildings (exteriors, interiors and fixtures), trees, garden and landscape elements, brick lined wells and other features. The registration also includes all…

GLENISLA

6495 HENTY HIGHWAY GLENISLA, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Glenisla squatting run was established in 1843 by a Scotsman named Simpson who named the run after a kirkdom near Balmoral. In 1860 Charles Carter and Sons acquired the run. From the 1870s…

NEUCHATEL

460 MERRAWARP ROAD BARRABOOL, Surf Coast Shire

The former Suisse vineyard property, renamed Neuchatel by the present owners, has significance for its early associations with the Breguet family, pioneer Swiss vignerons who settled in the…

CHATSWORTH HOUSE

101 HOPKINS HILL ROAD CHATSWORTH, Moyne Shire

Chatsworth House, a substantial single storey bluestone mansion with attendant outbuildings, on the Hopkins River near Chatsworth, was erected in1858-59 for pioneer pastoralist John Moffat.…

YERINGBERG

810-812 MAROONDAH HIGHWAY YERING, Yarra Ranges Shire

Yeringberg was founded by Baron Guillaume de Pury, grandfather of the present owner, in 1863. De Pury was a Swiss nobleman and a leader of the emigre Swiss community in Victoria in the…