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643 MAIN LEAD ROAD RAGLAN, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H0644In 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…
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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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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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2-8 KEVERELL ROAD AND 4-10 CRADDOCK AVENUE CAULFIELD NORTH, GLEN EIRA CITY
VHR H0589Rosecraddock 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,…
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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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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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140 APHRASIA STREET GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H0429The 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…
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330 URE ROAD GEMBROOK, CARDINIA SHIRE
VHR H0611The 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…
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5 CRESWICK STREET HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0457The 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…
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ST AGNES HOMESTEAD (STABLES AND COTTAGES)
BURTON AVENUE KYNETON, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE
VHR H0309St 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…
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MT MITCHELL HOMESTEAD AND STABLES
3056 SUNRAYSIA HIGHWAY LEXTON, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H0312Mount 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…
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6-10 THE EYRIE LILYDALE, YARRA RANGES SHIRE
VHR H0612Construction 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…
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6 MERRIANG HOMESTEAD ROAD MERRIANG, ALPINE SHIRE
VHR H0566The 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…
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7 CLEELAND ROAD CAPE WOOLAMAI, BASS COAST SHIRE
VHR H0666"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…
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5188 PENSHURST-WARRNAMBOOL ROAD PENSHURST, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0541The property which was to become Kolor was first settled in 1838 and was run as an aboriginal settlement for some time. John Joseph Twomey purchased it and adjoining properties about 1851.…
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POINT COOK HOMESTEAD AND STABLES
POINT COOK HOMESTEAD ROAD POINT COOK, WYNDHAM CITY
VHR H1509Brothers Thomas and Andrew Chirnside took up a sheep run at Point Cooke (later Point Cook) in 1852 and it became the home-station for their increasing pastoral runs in the west of the…
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4912 CALDER HIGHWAY RAVENSWOOD, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H0315The Ravenswood homestead was built by Frederick Fenton on Bullock Creek on his property near Bendigo probably c1866. Originally known as the Mount Alexander North run and occupied from c1840,…
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29-31 LYONS STREET ROSEDALE, WELLINGTON SHIRE
VHR H0645The Rosedale Hotel complex comprises a two-storey brick hotel (originally constructed as a single storey building in 1858 and altered in 1927), brick stables of 1858 and a two storey kitchen…
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65, 110 & 135 DROPMORE ROAD HIGHLANDS, MITCHELL SHIRE
VHR H0336Habbies Howe pastoral run, originally known as Kobyboyn, was established by pastoralist George Taylor in 1841. Gideon Stewart, who acquired the run in c1843, was from Scotland. The later…
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ROBERT RUSSELL HOUSE AND FORMER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH HALL
30-33 HOWE CRESCENT SOUTH MELBOURNE, PORT PHILLIP CITY
VHR H0574The residence was built about 1867 for Dr James Barrett, a noted surgeon and general practioner. It remained in the family until 1920. The architect was WH Ellerker. The name of the builders…
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324 STRATHFIELDSAYE ROAD PERRY BRIDGE, WELLINGTON SHIRE
VHR H0262 H8321-0001Strathfieldsaye was established as a cattle and sheep station by New South Wales grazier William O'Dell Raymond in 1848. Raymond was one of the first permanent settlers in Gippsland,…
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3-5 MACEDON STREET SUNBURY, HUME CITY
VHR H0275Rupertswood Mansion built for Sir William Clarke at Sunbury in 1874-76 was one of the largest houses built in Victoria in the nineteenth century. It is located within the township of…
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2328 BEECHWORTH-WANGARATTA ROAD TARRAWINGEE, WANGARATTA RURAL CITY
VHR H0568"Carinya", a two-storey brick residence and general store with an adjoining public hall, was built between 1862-67 for Thomas Taylor Ladson. The builders were Thos. Sheils and Jack Oliver.…
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