LAUDERDALE

7 PRINCE STREET ALFREDTON, Ballarat City

An early and elaborate house of architectural importance for its detailing. In a classically-derived style the house and its outbuildings are notable as a representative example of such a…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.33

401 DANA STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, Ballarat City

Ballarat, Dana Street Primary School No.33 was constructed in 1856 as the first National School in Ballarat West. It was designed by the prominent Geelong architectural firm of Backhouse and…

MONTROSE COTTAGE

111 EUREKA STREET BALLARAT EAST, Ballarat City

Montrose Cottage, 111 Eureka Street, Ballarat is a single storied, four roomed bluestone and brick cottage built circa 1856 by Scottish-born stonemason John Alexander. The cottage has a…

FORMER BANK OF NSW

87 FORD STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The Bank of New South Wales, Beechworth was built in 1856-7 on a prominent corner in the centre of the town. An agency for this bank had been opened in Beechworth in 1853, and three years…

SPECIMEN COTTAGE

178-180 HARGREAVES STREET BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

The house at 178-180 Hargreaves Street was built by stonemason James Brierly in two stages in 1856 and 1861, for and probably by himself, and is the oldest known house in Bendigo. The first…

BLACK ROCK HOUSE

30 -36 EBDEN AVENUE BLACK ROCK, Bayside City

Black Rock House at Black Rock was built for Charles Ebden, Victorian squatter, parliamentarian and leading citizen. He had been born in the Cape Colony, settled in Sydney in 1832, became a…

DEGRAVES MILL

688 COBB AND CO ROAD KYNETON, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE

Degraves Mill stands beside the Campaspe River on the site of the head station of the Carlsruhe Run, established by Charles Ebden in May 1837. William Degraves acquired the run in the 1850s.…

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.…

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…

RESIDENCE

202-206 CLARENDON STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

The residence at 206 Clarendon Street was erected by R. Jones for J. Gray in 1856. The architect was Osgood Pritchard. The original two storeyed building comprised twelve rooms and was…

CLARENDON TERRACE

208-212 CLARENDON STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

Clarendon Terrace was erected in 1856-57 by Robert Huckson for Charles Lister, a wine and spirit merchant and brewer. The architect was Osgood Pritchard. The building was later owned by the…

CORIO VILLA

56-58 EASTERN BEACH ROAD GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY

Prefabricated in 1855 and constructed in 1856, Corio Villa is the first prefabricated cast iron house in Australia. The property is situated on the corner of Eastern Beach Road and Fitzroy…

MERCHISTON HALL

2A GARDEN STREET GEELONG, Greater Geelong City

Merchiston Hall, Geelong was built in 1856 as a residence for local businessman and politician, James Cowie, on a commanding site in Geelong. It was designed by local architects, Backhouse…

MATTHEW FLINDERS SCHOOL NO.8022

15 MYERS STREET GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY

The Matthew Flinders School was built as the Flinders National Grammar School in Little Ryrie Street, Geelong in 1856-7. The initiative of a group of prominent citizens of Geelong in 1854 to…

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…

ALLOARMO

5 GRATTAN STREET HAWTHORN, Boroondara City

Construction of the house now known as Alloarmo commenced in c.1856. Another two sections were added in c.1895 and again in the 1930s or 1940s. The original section was built in brick, with…

KYNETON COURT HOUSE

1A HUTTON STREET KYNETON, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE

Kyneton Court House was commissioned by the Public Works Department in 1856, when Charles Pasley was Inspector General of Public Works. Made of local bluestone and completed in January 1857,…

FORMER BANK OF NSW

67 PIPER STREET KYNETON, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE

Former Bank of New South Wales, 67 Piper Street, Kyneton, is a blue- stone structure erected in 1856 for the bank to the designs of architect PW Douglas. The two storied structure is…

WUCHATSCH'S FARM

74 ROBERT STREET LALOR, WHITTLESEA CITY

Wuchatsch's Farm, comprising the main house, the stables, the milking shed, the dairies, the circular stone path, and extensive drystone walls and stone paths, is of outstanding historical…

LANGDON BUILDING

351 - 355 KING STREET WEST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

The Langdon Building at 351-355 King Street was built as three terrace houses by the owner-builder Robert Kidd. He built them in stages as follows: No.351 in 1863, No.353 in 1865 and No.355…

ANZ BANK

44 PERCY STREET PORTLAND, Glenelg Shire

The ANZ Bank at 44 Percy Street, Portland was erected for the Union Bank of Australia in 1856 to replace the first branch established in June 1846. In the same year a bluestone building was…

COURT HOUSE

33-35 MONTGOMERY STREET SKIPTON, Corangamite Shire

The Skipton court house has significance as a very early portable building, one of the very few remaining from the goldrush days. It was originally located in the government camp at Fiery…

RESIDENCE

64 AVOCA STREET SOUTH YARRA, Stonnington City

The Residence at 64 Avoca Street, South Yarra, was built c. 1856 and consists of four rooms all of which open off a central passage and have access via French doors to the verandah. The…

MELBOURNE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

345-369 and 355 ST KILDA ROAD and 93-151 DOMAIN STREET and 2-124 BROMBY STREET and 1-99 DOMAIN ROAD MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

From 1850 the Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, Bishop Perry made requests to the Superintendent of Port Phillip, Charles La Trobe for a site for an Anglican school, but the present site was not…

CHRIST CHURCH

683-701 PUNT ROAD SOUTH YARRA, MELBOURNE CITY

The nave of Christ Church was designed in 1856-7 by Webb and Tayler, who later added the chancel with basement vestry, the transepts, and the original tower base. The sanctuary (1881) the…