GULF STATION, YARRA GLEN

1029 MELBA HIGHWAY YARRA GLEN, YARRA RANGES SHIRE

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    GULF STATION, YARRA GLEN - History

    Heritage Inventory History of Site: After surveyor Robert Hoddle explored the area in 1838 it became known as Yarra Flats, but the Scottish settlers favoured Yarra Glen, the name which has survived to this day. William Bell and his three sons became established land holders by 1854. William Bell died in 1870 but the property remained with his descendants until after World War Two, when a soldier settler, J. Smedley, took over. The State Government purchased the remnants of the property totally 16 ha in 1976 and appointed the National Trust as the Committee of Management.

    Heritage Inventory Description

    GULF STATION, YARRA GLEN - Heritage Inventory Description

    A spatially related complex of 10 rustic timber farm buildings with corrugated iron roofs, originally shingled, built in the 1850s by Scottish born pastoralist, William bell. They are constructed variously of vertical and horizontal slabs with structural members of peeled logs - indigenous gum and stringybark timber cut and adzed locally. Only the weatherboard shearing shed and the homestead additions are more recent.The buildings stand on a gentle rise above the floodplain. The original homestead has a deeply recessed brick paved verandah which is supported on solid tree trunk posts. It is connected by a covered walkway to the more recent homestead, which has a magnificent garden sloping away to the south east. To the north of the homestead are stables, kennels, piggery and butcher shop, a large building accommodating a milking shed, smithy and hayshed, more stables, an old school building , slaughterhouse and sheep dip and a shearing shed.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: State

    Informants: Historic Places Section; CFL, National Trust Recorded by: R Supple et al Date Recorded: 1989

    Archeological Potential: Potential (area)

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