ST ANDREWS CHURCH PRECINCT

15 ST ANDREWS STREET BRIGHTON, Bayside City

The St Andrew's Church Precinct consists of a graveyard (1843), school house (1857), church (1857 and 1962), parish hall (1925), lych gate (post 1926), gate post (1842-50) and vicarage…

PURRUMBETE

3551 PRINCES HIGHWAY WEERITE, CORANGAMITE SHIRE

Purrumbete homestead, the former conservatory, the outbuildings, structures and walls, water reticulation system, driveways, garden, orchard, avenues and plantations. History…

THE BRIARS

450 NEPEAN HIGHWAY MOUNT MARTHA, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE

This pastoral run was taken up in 1840 by the prominent gentleman colonist Captain James Reid, who called it Checkingurk (or Tichingorook). Georgiana McCrae sketched the property in 1844. In…

FORMER METHODIST CHURCH

26-30 FORD STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The 1857 former stone church and the 1869 former Sunday school building. History Summary The first Methodist services in Beechworth were held in the open air by a local Methodist miner and…

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…

BONTHARAMBO HOMESTEAD

387 BOORHAMAN ROAD WANGARATTA, Wangaratta Rural City

Joseph Docker moved his family to the Wangaratta area in 1838, ten years after his arrival in Australia, and took up the Bontharambo run. He developed this property and built two houses…

BRIDGE

OVER COMMISSIONERS CREEK, ISAACS AVENUE YACKANDANDAH, INDIGO SHIRE

The Bridge over Commissioner's Creek is a single arched bridge which was constructed c. 1857. The entire bridge is constructed of rusticated granite dimension stones. The capping stones are…

ST KILIANS CATHOLIC CHURCH

173 MCCRAE STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Within months of gold being discovered in Bendigo in 1851, the Rev Father Dr Henry Backhaus (1811-1882) arrived on the diggings and celebrated the first mass. For over a year he conducted…

ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL AND HALL

501 STURT STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

St Patrick's Cathedral, Ballarat built between 1857 and 1871, was based on a design of English architect Charles Hansom, modified by local architects Dowden and Ross and later by JB Denny who…

FORTUNA VILLA

22-48 CHUM STREET GOLDEN SQUARE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Fortuna is a picturesque nineteenth century villa and garden developed from 1857 by two of Australia's wealthiest gold magnates, Christopher Ballerstedt from 1854 and George Lansell after…

PRINCE'S PARK

PARK STREET MARYBOROUGH, Central Goldfields Shire

The Prince's Park recreation reserve is a flat, low-lying site of approximately 25.6 hectares (64 acres) bounded by Park Road, Holyrood Street, Burns Street and Earl Street. The 7 hectare…

WERRIBEE RAILWAY STATION

COMBEN STREET WERRIBEE, Wyndham City

Werribee Railway Station was completed in 1857 as part of the Geelong and Melbourne Railway, the first country railway in Australia. The station was designed either by architect and engineer…

WILLIAMSTOWN CEMETERY

89 CHAMPION ROAD WILLIAMSTOWN NORTH, HOBSONS BAY CITY

Williamstown Cemetery was established in 1857 after the inadequacies of the unofficial cemetery at Point Gellibrand were repeatedly brought to the attention of the government. Located at…

FORMER ROYAL HOTEL AND THEATRE

14-18 HIGH STREET MALDON, Mount Alexander Shire

STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: The original Royal Hotel was one of the first licensed in the area in 1854. The theatre was built in 1857 to replace an earlier structure. In 1862…

CLAREMONT

143 NOBLE STREET NEWTOWN, GREATER GEELONG CITY

Claremont was designed in 1857 by the engineer Andrew McWilliams and constructed sometime between 1858 and 1861 for the successful Geelong grocer, William Blair. It is a symmetrically planned…

FORMER BANK OF AUSTRALASIA

24 SACKVILLE STREET PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE

The Former Bank of Australasia is a two storey bank and residence constructed of half coursed, rock faced basalt with bracketed eaves, slate roof, emphasised quoin work and pronounced…

CAPE SCHANCK LIGHTSTATION

164-420 CAPE SCHANCK ROAD CAPE SCHANCK, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE

The Cape Schanck Lightstation was constructed in 1857-59 as part of the second campaign of highway or ocean (as opposed to harbour) lighthouse building in Victoria which also produced lights…

OSBORNE HOUSE

51 SWINBURNE STREET NORTH GEELONG, Greater Geelong City

Osborne House, stables and courtyard were designed by leading Melbourne architects Webb and Taylor, and erected in 1858 for pastoralist Robert Muirhead, a former overseer with the Clyde…

MILTON

14 APHRASIA STREET NEWTOWN, Greater Geelong City

Milton was erected in 1857-58 for prominent Geelong pharmacist and politician Charles Kernot. It was designed by leading Geelong architects Backhouse and Reynolds in Renaissance Revival…

WILSONS PROMONTORY LIGHTSTATION

WILSONS PROMONTORY, South Gippsland Shire

Wilsons Promontory Lightstation was constructed in 1858-59 from locally quarried honey-coloured granite to the design of Victorian Public Works Department architect Charles Maplestone. It is…

FORMER BUSH'S STORE

94 WILLIAMSON STREET and 12 MYERS STREET BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

Bush's Store complex was constructed in stages from 1857 to 1890 during the first generation of settlement at Bendigo. It was built for Albert Bush, one of Bendigo's leading storekeepers in…

POLICE STATION AND OLD LOCK-UP

119 MAIN STREET BACCHUS MARSH, Moorabool Shire

This sandstone lock-up was built in 1857 by the P.W.D. A simple 2 cell rectangular building built of local sandstone. This masonry is unusual in being finished to a fair face and then picked…

GLENFERN

417 INKERMAN ROAD ST KILDA EAST, GLEN EIRA CITY

Glenfern was built on spacious grounds at the corner of Inkerman and Hotham Streets, East St Kilda in two main stages in 1857 and 1876. From 1876 to 1984 Glenfern had only two owners,…

FORMER BANK OF VICTORIA

29 CAMP STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The Former Bank of Victoria, also known as the Former CBC Bank, including all of the main building, the former servants' quarters at the rear and the rear wall. History Summary During the…

BEECHWORTH JUSTICE PRECINCT

FORD STREET WILLIAMS STREET HIGH STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

Gold was discovered at Beechworth in 1852 and the township of Beechworth was proclaimed on 1 July 1853. On 23 August 1856 the Municipal District of Beechworth was proclaimed and the first…