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…

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…

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…

CANTERBURY MANSIONS

208 CANTERBURY ROAD AND 126 MALING ROAD CANTERBURY, Boroondara City

Canterbury Mansions was first known as Malone's Family Hotel, after which it was called the Canterbury Club Hotel. In 1920, following the Local Option Poll and the closure of all hotels in…

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…

ROSECRADDOCK

2-8 KEVERELL ROAD and 4-10 CRADDOCK AVENUE CAULFIELD NORTH, GLEN EIRA CITY

Rosecraddock was constructed in two main stages. The first part was rated in 1857 as the home of Mr GW Harris. It consisted at that stage of seven rooms, kitchen (detached), servants' rooms,…

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…

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…

FULHAM PARK

413 MYRTLEBANK-FULHAM ROAD FULHAM, WELLINGTON SHIRE

The 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…

OLD SWAN INN

4 HAMILTON HIGHWAY FYANSFORD, GREATER GEELONG CITY

Fyansford, located at the junction of the Barwon and the Moorabool rivers, was named after Captain Foster Fyans, who had been stationed here as police magistrate in 1837. The ford provided a…

FROGMORE

425-465 HAMILTON HIGHWAY FYANSFORD, Greater Geelong City

The 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…

THE HEIGHTS

140 APHRASIA STREET GEELONG, Greater Geelong City

The Heights, 140 Aphrasia Street, Newtown, is a 1.13 hectare property with a number of 19th century buildings in a landscaped setting. The buildings include a partially prefabricated timber…

SILVERWELLS

330 URE ROAD GEMBROOK, Cardinia Shire

The complex of six buildings is located in Ure Road, Gembrook on Crown Allotment 70, Parish of Gembrook, about five kilometres north of the present township. They were built by Alexander Beau…

KOUT NORIEN ESTATE

47 HARROW-CLEAR LAKE ROAD HARROW, WEST WIMMERA SHIRE

Kout Norien on the Glenelg River near Harrow was originally taken up in 1840 as a 400,000 acre pastoral run. Following extensive sub- division by Edward Willis and Charles l Swanston between…

THE HAWTHORNS

5 CRESWICK STREET HAWTHORN, Boroondara City

The Hawthorns, initially known as The Falls, was built in 1845 for James Pinnock. In 1852 the property was subdivided and the house was purchased by Henry Creswick, MLA for Emerald Hill in…

FULHAM

29 WALCOTT ROAD KANAGULK, HORSHAM RURAL CITY

Fulham 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…

ST AGNES HOMESTEAD (STABLES AND COTTAGES)

BURTON AVENUE KYNETON, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE

St Agnes' stables and cottages, Calder highway, Kyneton, is a large brick house erected circa 1872 for members of Salathiel Booth's family incorporating an earlier bluestone house of the…

MORANGHURK

3320 MIDLAND HIGHWAY LETHBRIDGE, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

Moranghurk is the remains of a large pastoral property originally called Morangourke, located on the Moorabool River near Lethbridge. The first squatters to occupy the run were the partners…

MT MITCHELL HOMESTEAD AND STABLES

3056 SUNRAYSIA HIGHWAY LEXTON, PYRENEES SHIRE

Mount Mitchell Homestead at Lexton was designed by the prominent architect Charles Webb and built in 1860-61 for the Robertson family to replace an earlier homestead. Webb (1821-98) was one…

THE TOWERS

6-10 THE EYRIE LILYDALE, YARRA RANGES SHIRE

Construction of The Towers was commenced in 1876 and extended in three stages. It was started by Alfred Hand, a tanner and a member of a family well known in local business, fruit and wine…

MERRIANG HOMESTEAD

6 MERRIANG HOMESTEAD ROAD MERRIANG, ALPINE SHIRE

The Merriang Run was first established prior to 1846 by David Johnson who sold the pastoral licence to John Johnston, an Irish immigrant, in that year. In 1853 Johnston secured freehold title…

MOUNT BUFFALO CHALET

MOUNT BUFFALO ROAD MOUNT BUFFALO, Alpine Shire

The Chalet was built at Mount Buffalo after the first road to the summit was opened in 1908. The first Europeans recorded the Buffalo plateau in1824 and the tourist potential gained impetus…

WOLLOMAI HOUSE

7 CLEELAND ROAD CAPE WOOLAMAI, Bass Coast Shire

"Wollomai House" near Newhaven is a pastoral homestead which has important links with the early history of Phillip Island and the racing industry. It is of weatherboard construction with a…