THE GRANGE

15 Huxtable Road PAKENHAM UPPER, Cardinia Shire

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The Grange

Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    THE GRANGE - Physical Description 1

    The house is in a garden setting and surrounded by mature exotic trees.
    
    The house was described in a sale notice of 1991 as a `fully verandahed weatherboard house mostly in original and excellent condition having been built in 1872. The rooms are large, spacious and versatile...'. Altogether (house and cottages), there were 6 bedrooms, 3 bathroooms, 4 reception rooms and next to the house was a pool and 3 bay carport. The gardens were described as extensive and rambling with many grassed areas and overlooking rolling hills and expansive views'.
    
    The triple gabled elevation, with the gable trussing and intricate fretting of the barge boards, with finials, is typical of the picturesque approach to country residences in the late nineteenth century seen in pleasure resorts such as Mt. Macedon. The chimneys are brick with corbelled tops, the roofing is corrugated iron and, although the verandah is ornamented with cast-iron, this has been added/altered and the verandah itself rebuilt. The posts are not chamfered but the bressumer beam is, indicating that the posts are new. The iron pattern is a late nineteenth-century one and may have been relocated from another building. The verandah has a new brick floor. French windows placed among the more typical double-hung windows lends a Colonial character to the house, augmented by the concave verandah. The windows have wide moulded architraves, typical of the late nineteenth-century. Shutters have also been fitted. Internally the T&G bead-edge pine boarding has been generally retained, some being stained and lacquered. The historical description indicates that wallpaper was once applied over some of this boarding.
    
    An outbuilding between a new stable and the house appears to have been contemporary with the house but has since been altered and extended.
    
    The garden appears to have been designed with the house being set on a podium and the garden falling away as a terrace, with some symmetrical hedge plantings. The garden, although altered, is reminiscent in concept to the hill station gardens of Mt. Macedon. The rectangular garden layout overlooked by the house on the south side has many mature tree and shrubs, most probably from the nineteenth-century.
    
    These include:
    
    Araucaria heterophylla (Norfolk Island pine)
    Acmena smithii (lillypilly)
    Ulmus parvifolia Rhododendron vars.Ilex sp. (Var.)
    Arbutus unedo (Irish strawberry)
    Magnolia sp. Box hedge remnant
    Eriobotrya japonica (loquat)
    Chimonanthus praecox (winter sweet)
    Escallonia sp. Buddleia sp.
    
    The garden is contributory to the house period and of local significance.
    
    

    Physical Conditions

    THE GRANGE - Physical Conditions

    The house has been changed in detail by renewal of the verandah posts and probable fitting of second-hand cast-iron. The verandah floor (once timber?) is now brick. There is also evidence of alteration to openings. A large new stable has been erected to the west of the house yard.
    
    

    Historical Australian Themes

    THE GRANGE - Historical Australian Themes

    Historical Themes

    3.2 Selectors and small-scale farming

    7.1 Gentlemen's rural retreats

    Physical Description 2

    THE GRANGE - Physical Description 2

    Associations - McMahon, John; Burgin, William

    Physical Description 3

    THE GRANGE - Physical Description 3

    Trees and garden areof contributory significance. The garden appears to have been designed with the house being set on a podium and the garden falling away as a terrace, with some symmetrical hedge plantings. The garden, although altered, is reminiscent in concept to the hill station gardens of Mt. Macedon. The rectangular garden layout overlooked by the house on the south side has many mature tree and shrubs, most probably from the nineteenth-century

    The Grange is significant as an example of the rural residences and their pleasure gardens built in the Shire's resort areas last century.

    Significant trees include:

    Araucaria heterophylla (Norfolk Island pine)

    Acmena smithii (lillypilly)

    Ulmus parvifolia

    Rhododendron vars.

    Ilex sp. (Var.)

    Arbutus unedo (Irish strawberry)

    Magnolia sp.

    Box hedge remnant

    Eriobotrya japonica (loquat)

    Chimonanthus praecox (winter sweet)

    Escallonia sp.

    Buddleia sp.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Cardinia - Cardinia Shire Heritage Study 1996

    Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
    Year: 1996
    Grading: Local

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  The Grange - Kincora

  Barbara Baket • 06/11/19

  John McMahon named this property Kincora and it was surrounded by an extensive orchard and had lovely views to Port Philip Bay.