VILLA MARIA, LATER VILLA MAR

27 O'Neil Road BEACONSFIELD, Cardinia Shire

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Villa Maria - Later Villa Mar

Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    VILLA MARIA, LATER VILLA MAR - Physical Description 1

    This is a Federation Bungalow styled farm house sited at the top of a hill and concealed by a mature garden and trees reached by a long drive from a picketed entrance (round-head).
    
    The complex includes: an Edwardian-era weatherboard former rest home with a corrugated iron roof, 12 bedrooms, a kitchen, dining room, a former chapel and two bathrooms.
    
    There is also a smaller contemporary house at the rear, with three bedrooms and a verandah, which was reputedly once used by the priests and another cottage once occupied by the farm manager. Outbuildings include poultry sheds and a galvanised iron garage with an earth floor 8.
    
    The main hipped roof is augmented by gabled projecting room bays with some ornate leadlight windows and door-lights (one bearing the name of the house) The bullnose profile verandah encircles the front of the house and is decorated with fretted timber friezes. The house interior is notable for the former chapel, the internal verandahed courtyard and the ornamental ceilings throughout. There is reputedly a well under the kitchen cupboard (perhaps from the O'Neill occupation?) and a windmill was once near the kitchen door.
    
    The garden evokes two distinct periods, one of the c1900 era and the other of the 1930s or later. The drive is lined with Monterey pines while the house garden contains Monterey cypress, deodar cedar, elms, golden privet hedges, Camellia japonica (numerous), rhododendrons, Erythina sp., an old fig, quince and peach trees. There is a small ornamental concrete lined pond of the 1930s which takes the overflow from the well.
    
    

    Physical Conditions

    VILLA MARIA, LATER VILLA MAR - Physical Conditions

    The original wings of the houses are in generally externally original condition, unrelated with additions at the rear of the main house.
    
    

    Historical Australian Themes

    VILLA MARIA, LATER VILLA MAR - Historical Australian Themes

    Historical Themes

    10.4 Selectors' houses, gardens

    10.7 Farmhouses/farm complexes & outbuildings, gardens

    Physical Description 2

    VILLA MARIA, LATER VILLA MAR - Physical Description 2

    Associations - Catholic Church; O'Neill, John

    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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