FLOUR MILL

105-107 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The Castlemaine Steam Flour Mill building, a three storey Georgian-style brick and stone structure, was erected in 1856-57 for a local investment company. Thomas Shephard was the architect.…

BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES

149-151 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The former Bank of New South Wales, Castlemaine, designed by architect Leonard Terry and constructed in 1866, replaced an earlier bank building which was erected on the site by 1855. The…

FORMER CBC BANK

157 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The establishment of a branch of the Bank of Victoria in Castlemaine was first proposed in 1854, and this was subsequently opened in a temporary iron building. Late in 1855 tenders were…

FORMER TELEGRAPH OFFICE AND FAULDER WATSON HALL

208-210 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The Castlemaine telegraph office was one of four opened on the Sandhurst line in January 1857, the others being at Sandhurst, Kyneton and Gisborne. It was the first major public building…

RESIDENCE

5 BOWDEN STREET and 2 FARNSWORTH STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

No.5 Bowden Street was built in the 1860s for James Ah Coy, a Chinese interpreter. Ah Coy achieved a certain amount of notoriety in 1861 when, following a petition by members of the Chinese…

RESIDENCE

3-5 BURNETT ROAD CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The house was built for William Froomes Jnr, a draper, in 1867. The building and/or architect is/are not known. Froomes was born at Hounslow England in 1830 and was apprenticed to a draper in…

FORMER CASTLEMAINE GAOL

36-48 BOWDEN STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

HM Prison, Castlemaine was constructed of local sandstone between 1857 and 1861. It represents an important phase in the development of prison design associated with the completion of the…

RESIDENCE

37, 39A and 45 FARNSWORTH STREET and 3 BROWN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

A single-storey picturesque Elizabethan revival style house built in two stages between 1866 and 1869 by William Downe, architect and Castlemaine town Surveyor till 1872 on land he acquired…

BROADOAKS

31 GINGELL STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

Broadoaks, 31 Gingell Street, Castlemaine is a single storey house erected in 1854 as the district police inspector's residence, the architect being CD Balmain. The house is asymmetrically…

CASTLEMAINE RAILWAY PRECINCT (MURRAY VALLEY RLWY, MELBOURNE TO ECHUCA)

KENNEDY STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The Castlemaine railway precinct forms part of the Murray Valley Railway (Melbourne to Echuca line). Opened in five stages from February 1859 to September 1864, the Murray Valley Railway was…

FORMER CASTLEMAINE COURT HOUSE

7 GOLDSMITH CRESCENT CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The enormous influx of people to the Victorian central goldfields in the 1850s resulted in the rapid establishment of law enforcement instrumentalities and the erection of many public…

CHATSWORTH LODGE

127 JOHNSTONE STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

Chatsworth Lodge was built in c.1864 by James Redfearn, a monumental mason, who established his business there. Redfearn was born in Derbyshire, England, and migrated to Melbourne in 1856. In…

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

11-13 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

This complex contains three buildings, constructed for the Congregational, or Independent, church in Castlemaine. The earliest building was constructed in 1855 as a temporary church, Sunday…

CASTLEMAINE COURT HOUSE

29 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The first court building on this site was built in 1858. Previously courts had operated from the old Courthouse in the Commissioners Camp. This courthouse was similar to the courthouse at…

IMPERIAL HOTEL

56 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The Castlemaine area was sparsely populated until the discovery of gold in the Mount Alexander/Forest Creek area in September 1851. The rapid growth in population demanded some measure of…

CASTLEMAINE MARKET

44 MOSTYN STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The Castlemaine Market originally contained 22 shops for the sale of local fresh foods and products. It was one of three market buildings arranged geometrically around an arcaded water tank…

FORMER BANK OF AUSTRALASIA

57 MOSTYN STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The Former Bank of Australasia which was built in 1855 at a cost of £2500 was designed by the architect John Gill and built by James Kibble. It is a two storey building constructed of…

RESIDENCE

167 MOSTYN STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The land on which this house stands was acquired by the Vivian family in 1862 and, sometime before 1869, George Vivian had the house built for him. The Vivian brothers established an iron and…

FERNDALE MANOR

60 RAY STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

Ferndale Manor was built in Castlemaine for Henry Issacs in 1859-60 to designs by architect, Edward Spencer. From 1867 to 1876 it was the residence of Alexander William Robertson who,…

FORMER SHOP AND RESIDENCE

49 TEMPLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

This building was erected as a shop and residence in c.1859 for Caleb Anderson, a principal of Anderson, Grieg & Co., wine and spirit merchants of Melbourne. A two-storey shop, it is…

BUDA

42-48 HUNTER STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Buda is a single storey 1863 Italianate villa with grand 1890s classical baroque front entrance and octagonal additions, complemented by three acres of mature dry climate garden. The garden…

FARADAY PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 797

1 FARADAY SCHOOL ROAD FARADAY, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Faraday Primary School No.797 is a single-room school constructed of local granite in 1869. The building was designed by notable architect/engineer Thomas Bingham Muntz. It has a gable roof…

RUINS OF DUKE OF CORNWALL MINE

2 VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Built in 1865 the only alteration in the appearance of the structure has been through weathering and the lack of maintenance over a long period of time. It is considered that local mudstone,…

GUILDFORD HOTEL MUSIC HALL AND STABLES

35 FRYERS STREET GUILDFORD, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

The Guildford Hotel was built in 1855-6 for Joseph Sherer on a main corner site in the town. A combined music hall and stables building was added on the adjacent site by 1863, but possibly as…

POWELL'S PREFABRICATED HOUSE

55 MAIN ROAD CAMPBELLS CREEK, Mount Alexander Shire

Powell's Prefabricated House is important to the built heritage of Victoria despite its earliest origins being uncertain. The building probably dates from the period of peak importation of…