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WOODCOT PARK
345 TANNERY ROAD TARRAVILLE, WELLINGTON SHIRE

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WOODCOT PARK SOHE 2008

1 woodcot park tannery road tarraville front view oct1984

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Statement of Significance

James Neilson built Woodcot Park before 1855. He had arrived in the district in 1841 to set up a model dairy. He is said to have built several other buildings in the district. He died in 1859 probably by suicide. Woodcot Park was sold by James Neilson's trustees in 1865. It has been owned by the Macphail family since 1890.

The house is Georgian in its style and proportions. Its quality reflects the earlier architecture of NSW and Tasmania. A trading link was maintained with Tasmania from Port Albert. Various special details (some now missing) and unusual materials suggest a direct connection.

The most unusual feature of the house is the external wall construction. The original cladding was stretched oil cloth used to simulate stucco. The weatherboards which formed the base for the oil cloth are irregular in length and shape and are butt-jointed. The weatherboards on the rear elevation are more typical for the time.

The formerly detached kitchen is prefabricated, using a timber and iron frame with broad-gauge corrugated iron. It may have been imported in 1841. It is a very rare surviving example.

The house remains in its garden and orchard setting beside the Tarra River. It is of state importance for its connections with the earliest period of Gippsland's settlement and for its unusual building details.

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Record Details

Place ID
1147
Location
345 TANNERY ROAD TARRAVILLE, WELLINGTON SHIRE
Municipality
WELLINGTON SHIRE
Heritage Listing
Victorian Heritage Register
Level of significance
Registered
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number
H0649

Heritage Overlay Numbers
HO18
Extent of Registration

AMENDMENT OF REGISTER OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Historic Building No. 649, "Woodcot Park", Tannery Road, Tarraville (to the extent of the whole of the residence and that part of the land, (Certificate of Title, Volume 2220 Folio 869) shown hatched in red on the plan held by the Ministry for Planning and Environment).
[Victoria Government Gazette No. G10 11 March 1987 p. 559]
Year Construction Started
1855
VHR Registration
March 11, 1987
Heritage Act Categories
Registered place
Category

Residential buildings (private)