Dodd homestead RUINS

Dodds Road; Brimbank Park, KEILOR VIC 3036 - Property No 35

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1703 - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1998

Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    Dodd homestead RUINS - Physical Description 1

    Description

    Complex of stone structures including homestead ruins, a well/cistern, pitched paving, cement pigsty and associated stone walls. The homestead ruin comprises two separate structures connected by a narrow paved courtyard, possibly originally a breezeway dividing the main living areas from the detached kitchen. The walls are now standing less than one metre high, with a large proportion of the original stone having simply fallen into the building interiors. As a result a rough mound of rubble has been formed. The paved passage is formed from bluestone pitchers about 25 by 40 cm. set in sand or mud. The standing walls are built in basalt, employing both weathered surface stone and the more typical roughly cut quarried bluestone. Walls are random coursed rubble, about 40 cm thick, with a mud mortar (no cement or lime evident) and a large quantity of small make-up pieces used to make regular courses at about 40 cm intervals. The main buildings appear to be divided into four rooms with internal stone walls showing some signs of original rendering and whitewash. To the west, are two rooms, also with internal rendering. A bluestone-pitched yard extends around the east and south side of the ruin with a pitched driveway? curving away to the north. To the east, are the remains of a formed concrete piggery building. The floor is also concrete. Corrugated iron and timber between the two suggest other outbuildings, although no clear form could be discerned.

    Physical Conditions

    Dodd homestead RUINS - Physical Conditions

    Condition/integrity

    The area has been bulldozed in the past with rubble and earth pushed up against the bluestone walls. Boxthorn is also growing through the rubble, both causing damage as roots grow through the stone work, and protecting the site from human access.

    Historical Australian Themes

    Dodd homestead RUINS - 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

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