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130 MOUNT ROAD ANAKIE, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H0282Narada 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…
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565 GLENMORE ROAD ROWSLEY, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0265Greystones including the interiors and exteriors of the homestead and other nineteenth-century buildings, homestead garden, parkland setting and other landscape elements. Staff houses…
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37 GRANT STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0263William 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…
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2132 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY BARNAWARTHA, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0279The 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…
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3210 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY RUTHERGLEN, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0700George 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…
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3221 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY RUTHERGLEN, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0698Olive 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…
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10 GLENARA DRIVE BULLA, HUME CITY
VHR H0625Glenara, 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…
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973 ERCILDOUN ROAD ERCILDOUNE, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H0313Brothers 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…
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520 MENINGOORT ROAD BOOKAAR, CORANGAMITE SHIRE
VHR H0300'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…
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3551 PRINCES HIGHWAY WEERITE, CORANGAMITE SHIRE
VHR H0301Purrumbete homestead, the former conservatory, the outbuildings, structures and walls, water reticulation system, driveways, garden, orchard, avenues and plantations. History…
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69 CAMP STREET CARISBROOK, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
VHR H0342A 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…
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826 WARROCK ROAD WARROCK, GLENELG SHIRE
VHR H0295Warrock 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…
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6495 HENTY HIGHWAY GLENISLA, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0444Glenisla 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…
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460 MERRAWARP ROAD BARRABOOL, SURF COAST SHIRE
VHR H0773The 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…
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101 HOPKINS HILL ROAD CHATSWORTH, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H0325Chatsworth 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.…
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99 COWANGIE SOUTH ROAD COWANGIE, MILDURA RURAL CITY
VHR H0688Cow Plains Homestead Complex is unique for its associations with the earliest preagricultural history of the Mallee when large pastoral runs were the most characteristic form of settlement in…
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405 MONOMEITH ROAD MONOMEITH, CARDINIA SHIRE
VHR H0452A vast area of land on the northern side of Westernport Bay was, during the early nineteenth century, dominated by the partnership of Mickle, Bakewell and Lyall, operating under the name of…
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ADELAIDE VALE HOMESTEAD AND OUTBUILDINGS
1060 AXEDALE ROAD FOSTERVILLE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H0304Adelaide Vale Homestead was begun in 1853 by John Harvey and was later occupied by Edward and Andrew O'Keefe. The building comprises a series of single storey stone buildings arranged behind…
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413 MYRTLEBANK-FULHAM ROAD FULHAM, WELLINGTON SHIRE
VHR H0331The pastoral run Fulham on Thomson river west of Sale was first taken up in 1841 by Peter Imlay of Twofold Bay (Eden) NSW. In October 1853 retired sea captain John William Jones acquired the…
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425-465 HAMILTON HIGHWAY FYANSFORD, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H0696The exploration of Hamilton Hume and William Hilton Hovell into inland New South Wales and Victoria on route to the Port Phillip District in 1824-25 and the favourable reports of the land…
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1356 MURNDAL ROAD TAHARA, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0289Murndal is at the heart of a pastoral run formerly known as Spring Valley, which was initially part of a larger squatting run called Tahara. Tahara was held in the 1840s under two licences…
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1830 WOOLSTHORPE-HEXHAM ROAD HEXHAM, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H0322The encouraging reports of Major Mitchell of rich grazing land south of the Murray River and the push of Launceston pastoralists into inland areas beyond the coastal whaling and sealing…
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1 MT TALBOT ROAD TOOLONDO, HORSHAM RURAL CITY
VHR H0468The "Mount Talbot" pastoral run at Toolondo was acquired by Dr Robert Officer in 1847. In 1859 his sons Charles and Suetonious took over the property and apparently in c.1862, Charles Officer…
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29 WALCOTT ROAD KANAGULK, HORSHAM RURAL CITY
VHR H0476Fulham Homestead is a large complex of early farming buildings, built between 1848 and 1861 for George Armytage. The property is a substantially intact pastoral property, altered only during…
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605 BACCHUS MARSH ROAD LOVELY BANKS, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H0283Elcho Homestead was built in about 1867 for John Galletly, on a four thousand acre property adjoining the Bacchus Marsh Road. The architect of the house is unknown. A wing was added on the…
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