BELMONT

643 MAIN LEAD ROAD RAGLAN, PYRENEES SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

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…

ERCILDOUN

973 ERCILDOUN ROAD ERCILDOUNE, PYRENEES SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

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…

CARRANBALLAC

5945 GLENELG HIGHWAY CARRANBALLAC, PYRENEES SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The large station property Carranballac, Skipton, was settled by the pastoralist Andrew Chirnside, who arrived in Australia from Scotland in 1841. With his brother Thomas, Andrew prospered…

Ercildoune Homestead & Garden

973 Ercildoune Road,, ERCILDOUNE VIC 3352 - Property No B0061

National Trust

Ercildoune Homestead was settled by Scottish-born brothers Thomas and Somerville Learmonth in 1838, when the first homestead, which still stands in the garden, was built. A proper house was…

Mawallok Homestead & Garden

3802 Geelong Road, STOCKYARD HILL VIC 3373 - Property No B1460

National Trust

Mawallok (also spelt Mawallock, Mahkwallok and Mawhallock) station of about 28,000 acres (now 5,851 acres) was acquired by Alexander Russell and Co. in 1847 and remained in the Russell…

Belmont House & Garden

643 Main Lead Road, RAGLAN VIC 3373 - Property No B3219

National Trust

A timber homestead of 1859-1862 with extensions of about 1880-1900 believed to be the work of a Swedish ship's carpenter, who gave them a distinctive decorative character, especially about…

Trawalla Homestead & Garden

406 Trawalla Road,, TRAWALLA VIC 3373 - Property No B0977

National Trust

First settled in the 1830's the Trawalla property has associations with some of Victoria's prominent early pastoral families, the Kirklands, the Goldsmiths, the Simonsons, the Wilsons and…

Belmont Garden

643 Main Lead Road, RAGLAN VIC 3373 - Property No G13022

National Trust

Belmont, the property developed by James Frazer Watkin and Laura Ninham from the late 1850s until the late 1880s when the house reached its current form, and then maintained by his family…

Trawalla Garden

406 Trawalla Road, TRAWALLA VIC 3373 - Property No G13024

National Trust

Trawalla, developed as a pastoral property from 1839, the residence and garden developed during the 1890s and maintained to the present, is of National significance: - historically, for its…

Ercildoune Garden

973 Ercildoune Road, ERCILDOUNE VIC 3352 - Property No G13060

National Trust

File note 28/06/2012: G13060 amalgamated& filed with B0061