SEP 5, SACKVILLE STREET RUIN

95 SACKVILLE STREET MERNDA, WHITTLESEA CITY

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Statement of Significance

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  • History

    SEP 5, SACKVILLE STREET RUIN - History

    Heritage Inventory History of Site: May be associated with Separation Estate, first subdivided 1850s-1860s.

    Interpretation of Site

    SEP 5, SACKVILLE STREET RUIN - Interpretation of Site

    Former domestic residence.

    Archaeological Significance

    SEP 5, SACKVILLE STREET RUIN - Archaeological Significance

    Potential to contain in situ domestic depsotis and features surrounding (and inside)the extant well and brick platform. While the site type is common, it represents part of the Separation Estate which relates to early settlement in the region.

    Historical Significance

    SEP 5, SACKVILLE STREET RUIN - Historical Significance

    Local historical significance as part of the Separation Estate, reflecting early settlement in the region.

    Heritage Inventory Description

    SEP 5, SACKVILLE STREET RUIN - Heritage Inventory Description

    Former residence. Remains include a brick foundation, oblong in shape, a brick and cement rendered well and parallel shallow channels running from top fence line straight down line of hill (ie across contours). The bricks include CLIFTON, NORTHCOTE hand-made, and wide oblong frog. Brick rubble litters the site. Plum and fig trees.

    Updated description August 2009: Brick domed well and brick platform adjacent to a stand of pepercorn trees, located at the southern end of sackville Stret, on the eastern side in a grazing paddock. Thick vegetation to the south, no irrigation channels visible.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: Medium to low.

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