STASINOWSKY'S LIME KILN

PELLA CHURCH ROAD RAINBOW, HINDMARSH SHIRE

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STASINOWSKY'S LIME KILN SOHE 2008

Statement of Significance

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  • History

    STASINOWSKY'S LIME KILN - History

    Section 2, Parish of Pigick was granted under the provisions of Mallee Lands Act 1896 as a perpetual lease to Annie Wickham on 1 July 1899. Wickham forfeited the lease in 1903 because she left the land unoccupied and did not pay any rent for 4 years. On 19 March 1903 the Crown Lands bailiff (a policeman based at Jeparit) reported on the site. He reported that a house which had been built there was now pulled down. On 18 May 1903 Alan McKenzie, who owned neighbouring land, wrote to the lands department to complain that rabbit activity on the allotment was not being addressed, and also requested that an outcrop of limestone in the south-east corner of Allotment 2 be reserved as a quarry.
    
    Subsequently Mary Holland applied for the lease of Allotment 2. At the local Land Board held at Jeparit on 18 February 1904 her application was granted. Holland was married, and her husband had previously worked a share farm with his father in a neighbouring district. On 13 June 1904 the Secretary of the Shire of Dimboola recommended that land be excised from Allotment 2 as the limestone was of no use to agriculture. Holland responded by complaining that the reserve would eliminate some of the best grass from her lease.
    
    In 1910 Holland’s solicitor in Horsham wrote to the Lands Department to say that Mr Holland had died, leaving Mrs Holland with a large family (10 children). He wanted to know why a licence had still not been issued. He confirmed that the whole of the land was used for agriculture and was partly fenced. At the same time it was confirmed to the Lands Department that the survey of the quarry reserve had still not been finished. The surveyor hoped to finish it once floods at Separation Creek had subsided.
    
    In February 1911 Holland wrote to the Department to advise she was now living with her brother on his land. A few weeks later she wrote again to confirm that all of allotment 2 was now fenced by wire between four hundred box and pine posts. The Crown Lands Bailiff, asked to report on the allotment, reported on 21 March 1912 that there were two buildings on the site. One, a house, was 30’ x 25’ constructed of iron and hardwood. The second was a shed, 60’ x 30’, constructed of hardwood with a straw roof. He valued all the improvements at £395. On 2 May 1912 Holland paid an outstanding amount of rent totalling £8.11.8 and the lease was finally issued.
    
    Henry Lush was briefly involved on the section. He appears to have leased the allotment from Mrs Holland for a short time, but quickly defaulted and subsequently she became the lessee once more.
    
    On 6 September 1912 Holland’s solicitor wrote requesting a certificate to show that all rents were paid. He required it as a condition precedent to the registration of transfer of the land. Clearly Holland intended to sell. On 5 August 1913 Johann (John) Gustav Strawinosky wrote to the Department asking how much rent was due on the allotment known as ‘the late Mrs Holland’s’. Sometime between September 1912 and August 1913 Strasinowsky must have bought the allotment from Holland, shortly before she died. A letter from his representative on 29 May 1916 said Strasinowsky was occupier of the land under a purchase agreement with Holland. Whilst the Department did not transfer the lessee in law until 1917, clearly Strasinowsky was occupying the allotment from late 1913 or early 1914. The land passed to Andrew Earnest Stawinsoky in 1920.
    
    (Public Records Office Land Selection File 780H/217 Pigick, VPRS 444 Unit 11)
    
    Johann Strawinosky was a stonemason by trade and he and his son Alfred built many houses in the Rainbow area. Johann and his wife Maria came from Wauraltee in South Australia. The family settled on a farm on Allotment 10 in the Parish of Pigick. Stasinowky built the Pella Lutheran church, manse and school. They later built the Presbyterian Church in Rainbow (I Maroske, The Story of Pella, p 31).

    Permit Exemptions

    STASINOWSKY'S LIME KILN - Permit Exemptions

    General Exemptions:

    General exemptions apply to all places and objects included in the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR). General exemptions have been designed to allow everyday activities, maintenance and changes to your property, which don’t harm its cultural heritage significance, to proceed without the need to obtain approvals under the Heritage Act 2017.

    Places of worship: In some circumstances, you can alter a place of worship to accommodate religious practices without a permit, but you must notify the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria before you start the works or activities at least 20 business days before the works or activities are to commence.

    Subdivision/consolidation: Permit exemptions exist for some subdivisions and consolidations. If the subdivision or consolidation is in accordance with a planning permit granted under Part 4 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 and the application for the planning permit was referred to the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria as a determining referral authority, a permit is not required.

    Specific exemptions may also apply to your registered place or object. If applicable, these are listed below. Specific exemptions are tailored to the conservation and management needs of an individual registered place or object and set out works and activities that are exempt from the requirements of a permit. Specific exemptions prevail if they conflict with general exemptions.

    Find out more about heritage permit exemptions here.

    Specific Exemptions:

    General Conditions:
    1. All alterations are to be planned and carried out in a manner that prevents damage to the fabric of the registered place or object.
    2. Should it become apparent during further inspection or the carrying out of alterations that original or previously hidden or inaccessible details of the place or object are revealed which relate to the significance of the place or object, then the exemption covering such alteration shall cease and the Executive Director shall be notified as soon as possible.
    3. If there is a conservation policy and plan approved by the Executive Director, all works shall be in accordance with it.
    4. Nothing in this declaration prevents the Executive Director from amending or rescinding all or any of the permit exemptions.
    5. Nothing in this declaration exempts owners or their agents from the responsibility to seek relevant planning or building permits from the responsible authority where applicable.
    
    * Any activity associated with grazing of land, including fence and gate erection, (and maintenance and repair or replacement), or track maintenance, is permit exempt.

    Permit Exemption Policy

    STASINOWSKY'S LIME KILN - Permit Exemption Policy

    The purpose of the permit exemptions is to allow works that do not impact on the significance of the place to occur without the need for a permit. Repairs and maintenance which replace like materials with like are permit exempt. Maintenance of limestone structures requires a specialised approach, and advice should be sought from Heritage Victoria before repairing defective mortar or replacing limestone blocks.
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