CLUNES POST OFFICE

102 BAILEY STREET CLUNES, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Clunes Post and Telegraph Office was built in 1879 to a design by the Public Works Department. The principal building was constructed by Messrs Lewis and Roberts at a cost of £4099…

CLUB HOTEL

34 FRASER STREET CLUNES, Hepburn Shire

The Club Hotel, Clunes was built in the commercial centre of the town in 1870, one of a number of hotels constructed in Fraser Street in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Gold was first…

FORMER ES&A BANK

30 FRASER STREET CLUNES, Hepburn Shire

The ES&A Bank is a substantial two storey stuccoed building of solid masonry construction, with double height internal vault, set prominently in the middle section of Fraser Street on…

CRESWICK TOWN HALL AND FORMER MUNICIPAL OFFICES

70-72 ALBERT STREET CRESWICK, Hepburn Shire

The Creswick Town Hall and Municipal Offices were constructed as one building in 1876, thirteen years after the creation of the Borough of Creswick. The design of the building was the subject…

RAIL BRIDGE

OVER CRESWICK CREEK, CRESWICK, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Creswick Creek railway bridge on the Creswick to Clunes line was erected in 1874 by engineering contractors Thomas and Greenlaw. This bridge, consisting of wrought iron superstructure,…

FORMER CRESWICK GOLD OFFICE

87 ALBERT STREET (REAR) CRESWICK, Hepburn Shire

The Former Creswick Gold Office and Sub-Treasury was built in 1858 to a design by the Public Works Department. Its architect was CG Ross and its construction followed shortly after the…

CRESWICK RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX

REED STREET CRESWICK, Hepburn Shire

The Creswick Railway Station Complex was constructed in 1874 by George Anderson for the Victorian Railways. It comprisesa hip roofed, bi-chromatic brick station building and residence with a…

SCHOOL OF FORESTRY

4 WATER STREET CRESWICK, Hepburn Shire

The School of Forestry, the first of its kind in Australia, was established in Creswick in 1909 on a site adjacent to the Victorian State Nursery and Plantation at Saw Pit Gully. Creswick…

COURT HOUSE, FORMER POLICE QUARTERS AND LOCK-UP

13 CAMP STREET DAYLESFORD, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Former Daylesford police quarters and cell block are located uphill from the prominently sited courthouse (1862). Built in 1858, the single-storey quarters are constructed of rendered…

ST FRANCIS XAVIER CHAPEL AND CATHOLIC CEMETERY

3835-3911 MIDLAND HIGHWAY EGANSTOWN, HEPBURN SHIRE

St Francis Xavier at Eganstown, built 1865-1867, has both architectural and historical significance for the following reasons: 1) The small weatherboard gothic chapel with its associated…

FORMER FRANKLINFORD COMMON SCHOOL

WHYBROW STREET and MILL STREET FRANKLINFORD, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Former Franklinford Common School building was erected in the mid-1860s as the result of local initiative for a new common school. Visually the building is dominated by the gable over the…

FORMER MACARONI FACTORY

64 MAIN ROAD HEPBURN SPRINGS, HEPBURN SHIRE

The former Macaroni Factory was commenced in 1859 by brothers Giacomo and Pietro Lucini. The Lucinis were fabric merchants from Intra on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. As supporters of…

PARMA HOUSE

128 MAIN ROAD HEPBURN SPRINGS, Hepburn Shire

Parma House was built in 1864 for the Swiss-Italian Fabrizzio Crippa and is one of the most substantial residences in the Daylesford district. The two-storey rendered building appears to be…

LITTLE HAMPTON PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1700

113 GLENLYON-LITTLE HAMPTON ROAD LITTLE HAMPTON, HEPBURN SHIRE

Little Hampton Primary School No.1700, built in 1876, is architecturally significant in being one of only a few of the Education Department "80-type" timber schools extant within the…

SMEATON HOUSE

118 ESTATE LANE SMEATON, HEPBURN SHIRE

Smeaton House at Smeaton was designed by architect John Gill and built for overlander and pastoralist Captain John Hepburn. Hepburn was a ship's captain, who arrived in Van Diemen's Land in…

BRIDGE

OVER BIRCH (FORMERLY BULLAROOK) CREEK, NEWSTEAD-CRESWICK ROAD SMEATON, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Bridge over Birch (formerly Bullarook) Creek on the Ballarat to Castlemaine Road is a notable example of a small bluestone bridge. The single span, 50 foot bridge was constructed in 1892…

HEPBURN GRAVES

ESTATE LANE SMEATON, HEPBURN SHIRE

Hepburn graves, Smeaton House, Smeaton, are important as an intact private cemetery, representative of a number of such cemeteries associated with pastoral holdings. The graves have…

HAMLIN PIPE ORGAN

84 BAILEY STREET CLUNES, Hepburn Shire

The pipe organ in St Paul's Anglican Church at Clunes was built about 1866 by Hamlin and Son, London, to the order of a Melbourne gentleman for his personal use. The client died before the…

DAYLESFORD BOTANIC GARDENS

CENTRAL SPRINGS ROAD and FRASER STREET and HILL STREET and DALY STREET DAYLESFORD, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Daylesford Botanic Gardens cover an area of 10.4 hectares and are bounded by Daley Street, Hill Street, Frazer Street and Central Springs Road. The site on the summit of the extinct…

HEPBURN MINERAL SPRINGS RESERVE

MINERAL SPRINGS RESERVE ROAD HEPBURN SPRINGS, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Hepburn Mineral Springs Reserve is approximately 30 hectares of public land adjacent to Hepburn Springs township that includes the Hepburn Mineral Springs bathhouse. The reserve, which…

CLUNES TOWN HALL AND COURT HOUSE

98 BAILEY STREET CLUNES, Hepburn Shire

The Clunes Town Hall and Court House was designed by Percy Oakden and constructed by William Cowland in 1872-3. The distinctive Victorian Free Classical style building is a reflection of the…

ANDERSONS MILL COMPLEX

9 ALICE STREET and 3635 CRESWICK-NEWSTEAD ROAD SMEATON, HEPBURN SHIRE

Anderson's Mill Complex, Smeaton, comprises a huge bluestone mill building, water wheel, 23 metre tall brick chimney, bluestone office, stables, granary, blacksmiths shop and residence. The…

FORMER ST PAULS CHURCH OF ENGLAND

10 TEMPLETON STREET CLUNES, HEPBURN SHIRE

' This timber, possibly pre-fabricated, church was first erected in Clunes for the congregation of St Pauls Anglican Church between 1859-60 on a different site (Fraser Street) from where it…

COLIBAN WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM

TYLDEN TO BIG HILL, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE, HEPBURN SHIRE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

* The Coliban water supply system is a historically important engineering system designed to bring water to the City of Bendigo which commenced operation in 1877. The Coliban water supply…

OLD STATE NURSERY OFFICE

SAWPIT ROAD CRESWICK, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Old State Nursery Office is a diminutive two storey timber building, hexagonal in plan with an encircling verandah at both levels. The building was designed by John Johnstone and…