ORDE'S/OGDEN BROTHERS MILL
LODDON RIVER ROAD WHEATSHEAF, HEPBURN SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Orde's/Ogden Brothers' mill site features the remains of two adjacent sawmills on the Loddon River, east of Daylesford. Thomas Orde built the first mill in 1880. He employed forty men, and dispatched timber south along a tramway to the Lyonville railway station. Orde's mill site features a large sawdust heap, well defined earthworks for the sawdust trench, a stone boiler setting and remnant timbers. The mill closed in 1896.
A second mill was built almost on the same site by the Ogden brothers in 1942. Logs were obtained from the surrounding forest using a crawler tractor, with timber taken away by motor truck along a corduroyed road constructed by the mill owners. The site includes remnant timbers, a sawdust trench and impressions of log yard timbers. The mill also displays the typical terraced formation of a twentieth-century sawmill. The mill ceased cutting on the site in 1944.
How is it significant?
The Orde's/Ogden Brothers' mill site is of archaeological significance to the State of Victoria.
Why is it significant?
The Orde's/Ogden Brothers' mill site is archaeologically important for demonstrating two distinct stages of Australian sawmilling technology side by side. Each site is typical of its stage of technology. The mills have the potential to provide significant information about the technological history of sawmilling.
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ORDE'S/OGDEN BROTHERS MILL - 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 exempted alterations are to be planned and carried out in a manner which prevents damage to the fabric of the registered place or object. General Conditions: 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. General Conditions: 3. If there is a conservation policy and plan approved by the Executive Director, all works shall be in accordance with it. General Conditions: 4. Nothing in this declaration prevents the Executive Director from amending or rescinding all or any of the permit exemptions. General Conditions: 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.EXEMPTIONS:
* Preliminary Mineral Exploration work
* Fire suppression duties
* Weed and vermin control
* Public safety
* Rehabilitation, protective and stabilisation works
* Information signage - for interpretation and prevention of public risk
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ORDE'S/OGDEN BROTHERS MILLVictorian Heritage Register H2013
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ORDE'S/OGDEN BROTHERS SAWMILLSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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