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Brimbank Farm
Brimbank Road, KEILOR VIC 3033 - Property No 123

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1641 - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1998
1641 - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1998
1641 - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1998
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Statement of Significance

Statement of Significance

The Brimbank Park homestead is of historical and architectural significance to the City of Brimbank and a rare and intact example of a property related to the beginnings of European settlement and the development of intensive horticulture in the Keilor area. It is important for its associations with the pioneering families of the Dodds and Goudies, and for its links with improvements in orcharding and market gardening, best demonstrated in the surviving tomato-ripening shed.
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    • Physical Description 1

      Brimbank Farm - Physical Description 1

      Description

      Weatherboarded, verandahed, double-fronted house with cement sheet, concrete and timber outbuildings (including a tomato-ripening shed) and an earlier rubble stone outbuilding - a sunken stone-walled dairy - all in the former farm setting, now manicured as parkland next to the river bend. One outbuilding is clad in flattened kerosene tins, a once-common but rare surviving form of building generally adopted during the 1930s depression. The main house faces the approach drive flanked by sugar gums and other plantings and a length of unusual (for the use of sandstone) dry stone wall, forming an open courtyard. Peppercorn tree, willows and poplars (P. deltoides) on the river, Monterey pine and Jacarandas in the yard plus pittosporum in the garden.

      Physical Conditions

      Brimbank Farm - Physical Conditions

      Condition/integrity

      In good condition, although alterations have been undertaken over the years, including the construction of a new kitchen/laundry, and lining of some of the former outbuildings.

      Historical Australian Themes

      Brimbank Farm - Historical Australian Themes

      3 Developing local, regional and national economies
      3.5 Developing primary production

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Brimbank - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study

      Author: G. Vines
      Year: 2000
      Grading: Local

      Brimbank - Melbourne Western Region Industrial Heritage Study

      Author: G. Vines & A. Ward
      Year: 1989
      Grading:

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