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Overnewton
Overnewton Road, KEILOR VIC 3036 - Property No 18

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1941a - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1971
1941a - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1971
1941a - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1971
1941b - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1971
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Statement of Significance

An Overnewton homestead complex incorporating a picturesque example of Scots baronial design in the two-storey section which was designed by Thomas M. Taylor and built in 1859, is of historical, architectural and Social significance as a rare and unusual example of early squatters pastoral estate reflecting an unusual origin. Several other aspects of the homestead are of importance, including the spiral staircase in the western turret and the billiard room. The earliest part of the homestead dates from about 1849. The classification applies to the complex of stone buildings only. The homestead is also significant for its association with pastoralist William Taylor.

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    • Physical Description 1

      Overnewton - Physical Description 1

      Original colonial bluestone homestead built c. 1849 with the two-storey medieval wing and gatehouse added c.1859. Set back from the Bendigo road. Of the original pastoral complex, the homestead and domestic outbuildings survive with the original 1849 and later 1860s additions comprising the stone, hipped-roof central section, with verandah and renewed verandah detail, flanked by large Baronial addition, altered in the 1920s? Outbuildings are of stone and timber and there is also an old aviary. Plantings include: agapanthus, olive hedge rows; C. sempervirens, C. macrocarpa and C. torulosa specimens and groups, Canary Island pines, Araucaria sp. (bunya, hoop pine), sugar gums, an old melia, palms, and a mature walnut tree. Large olives and Ficus macrophylla. Located on Overnewton Drive, once the private driveway, but now realigned at the south-west. The original drive is marked by tree rows and the surviving gatehouse on the Old Calder Highway.

      Condition/Integrity

      Good

      Physical Conditions

      Overnewton - Physical Conditions

      Good

      Historical Australian Themes

      Overnewton - 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: State

      Brimbank - Melbourne Western Region Industrial Heritage Study

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

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